Deploying resources to the App_GlobalResources directory of a web-application

Eric Bartels — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:45:57 +0000

If you ever asked yourself how to get your resources-files (resx) into the App_GlobalResources so they can be used inside your custom aspx-pages like all “default SharePoint pages” in the LAYOUTS-folder do

<asp:Literal runat="server" Text="<% $Resources:wss,Title; %"> />

STSADM is your helper!

Simply deploy your solution and in your manifest specify that your resource-files will be copied to CONFIG\Resources within the “12-hive”. After your upgrade/deploy run the following command.

stsadm -o copyappbincontent

Now you can reference your resources in your custom aspx-pages the way the SharePoint-Team does it.

<asp:Literal runat="server" Text="<% $Resources:myResxFile,myResourceKey; %>" />

I/O-Error during solution deployment on MOSS 2007

Eric Bartels — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:27:22 +0000

Today a simple stsadm -o upgradesolution failed with no explainable reason. The only thing MOSS told me was an I/O-Error during the copy operation on the front-end webserver (WFE) while deploying the solution.

Further analysis revealed the culprit. The virus scanner (I do not like “him” anymore ) installed on the WFE does a real-time scan while MOSS extracted the wsp-file and prevented a successful copy operation.

So if you ever get an I/O-Error during a deploysolution or upgradesolution check you virus scanner!

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Deploying resources to the App_GlobalResources directory of a web-application

STSADM is your helper!

I/O-Error during solution deployment on MOSS 2007