For the migration to be successful, I have to remove some data in *.resx files

[xpouyat]

For the migration of my Winforms app to be successful, I have to use Visual Studio 16.10 Preview 2 and edit resx files.

As there were error in loading some of the forms, I found that I need to remove some data in *.resx files in order for Designer to be able to load the forms without errors. The data to be removed are serialized images in the *.resx files. For example

<data name="createStreamingEndpointToolStripMenuItem.Image" type="System.Drawing.Bitmap, System.Drawing" mimetype="application/x-microsoft.net.object.bytearray.base64">
    <value>
        iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAABl0RVh0U29m
        dHdhcmUAQWRvYmUgSW1hZ2VSZWFkeXHJZTwAAAA0SURBVDhPY/j//z9FGKsgKRhCYAcgCRjGAKMGYBqA
        rJgoPPgMwAaQNWCAUQPQDCAf/2cAAPWXSMZeEajdAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC
</value>
 </data>

So I removed all these sections in resx files and forms now load. Then I have to reconfigure the images in the menus etc.

The localization feature for winforms with .Net 5 works but I had to use Visual Studio 16.10 Preview 2. It was not working with Visual Studio 16.9.4.

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• Content: Migrate a Windows Forms app to .NET 5 - Windows Forms .NET
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[adegeo]

@kennethhovsnow fyi

[adegeo]

@kennethhovsnow is this a bug? what is the data the customer is removing? Is it expected?