The default culture is the culture whose resources are loaded if the appropriate culture-specific resources cannot be found. By default, resources for the default culture are located in the main assembly, and a System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException is thrown if the resource manager tries to retrieve but cannot find a resource for the default culture. However, the .NET Framework will load the resources for an app's default culture from a satellite assembly if the System.Resources.NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute attribute specifies a value of UltimateResourceFallbackLocation.Satellite for the location parameter. When this is the case, the System.Resources.MissingSatelliteAssemblyException exception is thrown when the resource manager tries to retrieve a resource of the default culture and the satellite assembly for the culture specified in the System.Resources.NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute attribute is missing. Note that the exception is thrown by a resource retrieval method such as ResourceManager.GetString(string) or ResourceManager.GetObject(string), and not when the System.Resources.ResourceManager object is instantiated.

System.Resources.MissingSatelliteAssemblyException uses the HRESULT COR_E_MISSINGSATELLITEASSEMBLY, which has the value 0x80131536.

System.Resources.MissingSatelliteAssemblyException uses the default erload:System.Object.Equals implementation, which supports reference equality.

For a list of initial property values for an instance of the System.Resources.MissingSatelliteAssemblyException class, see the MissingSatelliteAssemblyException.#ctor constructors.