Occasionally I need to get at the names of the resources in an assembly, usually this coincides with me trying to use a resource which either doesn’t exist of I otherwise make a typo on its name.

This little snippet simply allows us to iterate of the resources in an assembly and returns an array of the key names

public static string[] GetResourceNames(Assembly assembly)
{
   string resName = assembly.GetName().Name + ".g.resources";
   using (var stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resName))
   {
      using (var reader = new System.Resources.ResourceReader(stream))
      {
         return reader.Cast<DictionaryEntry>().
                    Select(entry =>
		       (string)entry.Key).ToArray();
      }
   }
}