http://xl8.net/blog/archive/2003/08/25/372.aspxYes, it turns out when you load up a ResourceManager it stays in memory. Given what it's doing, it's actually wicked fast. I did some semi-scientific profiling. I wanted to compare it to rolling my own simple StringManager component. Using four culture-regionen-USCommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60526.2668)