LanguageRESX
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET XML resource template
File type: Source code and script file, Settings, options, themes or skins file
An resx file extension is associated with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development environment. An resx file contains XML resource template.
Found 2 different file type records with the same resx filename suffix.
What is resx file?
File type category:
Source code and script file
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: December 31, 2024
The resx file extension is associated with Microsoft Visual Studio.
The resx files are used for developed application resource files or resource template files.
The RESX resource file format consists of XML entries, which specify objects and strings inside XML tags. One advantage of a RESX file is that when opened with a text editor (such as Notepad or Microsoft Word) it can be written to, parsed, and manipulated. When viewing a RESX file, you can actually see the binary form of an embedded object (a picture for example) when this binary information is a part of the resource manifest. Apart from this binary information, a RESX file is completely readable and maintainable.
The resx file contains a standard set of header information, which describes the format of the resource entries and specifies the versioning information for the XML used to parse the data.
The following example shows what a typical set of header statements in a resx file might look like.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
<xsd:schema id="root" xmlns=""
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xsd:element name="data">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="value"
type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
</xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="name"
type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:attribute name="type"
type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:attribute name="mimetype"
type="xsd:string" />
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
Following the header information, each entry is described as a name/value pair, very similar to the way in which strings are specified in a txt file. A name/value pair in the .resx format is wrapped in XML code, which describes string or object values. When a string is added to a .resx file, the name of the string is embedded in a <data> tag, and the value is enclosed in a <value> tag, as in the following example.
<data name="string1"> <value>hello</value> </data>
When an object is inserted into a .resx file, the same <data> and <value> tags are used to describe the entry, but the <data> tag includes either a type or MIME type specifier. The type specifier holds the data type of the object being saved. The MIME type specifier holds the base type (Base64) of the binary information stored, if the object consists of binary data.
How to open resx file?
Use any of the Microsoft Visual Studio suites. You can also view the *.resx files using text editor.
How to convert resx file?
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
Suggested software to open resx file:
Associated software actions with the resx file
Software applications that can open resx files:
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text (Microsoft Windows)
PSPad (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
TextEdit (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Sublime Text for Linux (Linux/Unix)
gedit (Linux/Unix)
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
GNU Emacs (Multiplatform)
Software applications that can edit resx files:
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text (Microsoft Windows)
PSPad (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
TextEdit (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Sublime Text for Linux (Linux/Unix)
gedit (Linux/Unix)
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
GNU Emacs (Multiplatform)
Software capable of saving resx files:
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text (Microsoft Windows)
PSPad (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
TextEdit (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Sublime Text for Linux (Linux/Unix)
gedit (Linux/Unix)
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
GNU Emacs (Multiplatform)
Software apps that create resx files:
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
Software apps that manage settings for resx files:
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
Software applications that handle other tasks involving resx files:
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
Payroll Mate file
File type category:
Accounting, financial and tax file
Date updated: October 30, 2015
The resx file extension is associated with the Payroll Mate a financial and accounting software for Microsoft Windows operating system developed by RealTaxTools.com.
The resx file stores some kind of data used by Payroll Mate.
Suggested software to open resx file:
Associated software actions with the resx file
Software applications that handle other tasks involving resx files:
Payroll Mate (Microsoft Windows)