What is the Neutral Language setting used for?

configuration, winforms

Solution

I believe it sets the NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute for the assembly. From the docs:

The `NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute` informs the `ResourceManager` of the language used to write the neutral culture's resources for an assembly, and can also inform the `ResourceManager` of the assembly to use (either the main assembly or a satellite assembly) to retrieve neutral resources using the resource fallback process. When looking up resources in the same culture as the neutral resources language, the `ResourceManager` automatically uses the resources located in the main assembly, instead of searching for a satellite assembly with the current user interface culture for the current thread. This will improve lookup performance for the first resource you load, and can reduce your working set.

Does that help? You might also want to look at Kim Hamilton's blog post on the topic.

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