Satellite Assemblies Resource files in Dot Net Resource files are typically used to store any resources in your Dot Net application. Resource file allows you to store images, icons, audio, files, strings and other types of resources. Of cause it is not mandatory to keep them inside a resource file. But when it comes to localization it is recommended to work with the resource file. localization Which means based on the user's language and culture change the application and the resources. How to archive localization with resources? Seems to be an impossible task. But to make the impossible possible, Dot Net provides you a special assembly called "Satellite Assembly" Satellite assemblies are assemblies that containing resources specific to a given language and culture. Using satellite assemblies, you can place the resources for different languages in different assemblies, and the correct assembly is loaded into memory only if the user selects to view the ...