---
title: SAIF.Resources overview
summary: High-level purpose, scope, and responsibilities for SAIF.Resources.
status: draft
owner: SAIF Doc Gen
last_reviewed: 2026-07-24
library: SAIF.Resources
reference_type: package
---

# SAIF.Resources overview

> **Documentation context:** Packaged Component (NuGet)

`SAIF.Resources` is a shared localization and template-resource library that packages strongly typed resource sets, template loaders, and lightweight mapping helpers for other SAIF applications.

## Purpose
- Provide reusable English and Spanish resource strings across UI, business, application, and service-facing areas.
- Load text templates from either the file system or embedded assembly resources, then support token replacement against the loaded content.
- Expose helper types for supported-language enumeration, simple token metadata, and reflection-based projection of resource properties into consumer view models.

## Responsibilities
- Package generated resource classes compiled from `.resx` files under `Application`, `Business`, `Common`, `Services`, and `UI`.
- Support culture-aware template loading with a fallback chain from specific culture to neutral culture to default resource.
- Provide token discovery and replacement services for loaded text templates.
- Publish supported-language metadata for English and Spanish resource consumers.
- Provide a reflection-based helper for copying matching properties between source and destination types.

## Key components
- `clsResourceManager`, `clsFileResourceManager`, `clsAssemblyResourceManager`: template loading and token replacement.
- `clsLanguage` and `mdlLanguages`: supported-language metadata.
- `ResourceViewModelMapper`: reflection-based projection and scaffolding helper.
- Generated `.Designer.vb` resource classes and packaged static assets: localized string and content resources.

## Related documentation
- [Index](index.md)
- [Architecture](architecture.md)
- [Dependencies](dependencies.md)
- [Operations and processes](operations-processes.md)
- [Business rules](business-rules.md)
- [API reference](api/index.md)

## Sources
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\SAIF.BOF.ResourceFiles.vbproj`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\SAIF.BOF.ResourceFiles.nuspec`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\clsResourceManager.vb`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\clsFileResourceManager.vb`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\clsAssemblyResourceManager.vb`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\clsLanguage.vb`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\mdlLanguages.vb`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\Mappings\ResourceViewModelMapper.vb`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\Resources\AppConstants.vb`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\Resources\core.js`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\Resources\user_registrationverification_es.html`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\Common\Common_UI.Designer.vb`
- `Resources\SAIF.Resources\UI\UI_MyClaim.Designer.vb`