I've been looking for a method to read legacy .res files and came across the Support.LoadString method but have no idea how to get it to work. The only other method that seems to link to it is the SetResourceBaseName method but that doesn't seem to do anything.

Anyone have any idea on how to get this to work?

Functions and objects in the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.VB6 namespace are provided for use by the tools for upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2008. In most cases, these functions and objects duplicate functionality that you can find in other namespaces in the .NET Framework. They are necessary only when the Visual Basic 6.0 code model differs significantly from the .NET Framework implementation.

In this situation please use the Win32 resource functions via PInvoke to read the values from resource file:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302340.aspx#win32map_resourcefunctions

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Best regards,
Riquel
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Functions and objects in the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.VB6 namespace are provided for use by the tools for upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2008. In most cases, these functions and objects duplicate functionality that you can find in other namespaces in the .NET Framework. They are necessary only when the Visual Basic 6.0 code model differs significantly from the .NET Framework implementation.

In this situation please use the Win32 resource functions via PInvoke to read the values from resource file:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302340.aspx#win32map_resourcefunctions

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Best regards,
Riquel
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