1 Resource File vs Many

Question

I have a site that I am manually adding Spanish and Portuguese support to via resource files and GetGlobalResourceObject() in my pages.

I have several types of users that have essentially their own sections of the site. I currently only have one big Language.resx file (for each language) that holds all the "translations".

My Question:

Would having one big resource file for the entire site be a performance bottle neck vs having 1 resource file per page/form?

The files contain about 800 lines of text. I am currently using excel to generate the resource files (xml) via concatenate(), which makes it easy for me to update the .resx files at this point.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The reasons for having multiple resource files are:

• Organizational - it is easier to organize and find the resources for each language
• Deployment - changes to any single language translations can be deployed independently

Performance wise - having a single file would, under normal circumstances cause less IO than having the same information across multiple files. However, since this is a cost that is only incurred once (when reading the resource files), it would normally be negligible.