title: How to add existing language resources to a new project (VS2010)
body: <p>It should be an easy task. I have created language resources for German and English in several of my Visual Studio 2010 projects and I want to reuse some of them, because they contain generic strings that I need for every project. </p>
  
  <p>Whenever I try to add an existing resource to my project it ends in a nightmare. The resources aren't recognized at all if I just add the .resx files. Stuff like My.Resources.Languages.UnkownException ist not recognized even though a Resource with that string has been added and the exact same code works in my other program. So somehow the language resource is not recognized as such and all references to it fail</p>
  
  <p>I have found many workarounds like creating new resources and then editing the xml files to copypaste my strings or copypasting every resource related file into my project and then fixing the few errors and warnings that remain. But these are all horrible workarounds.</p>
  
  <p>So, how do I add existing language resources to a project so that I can immediately reuse my Resource strings?</p>