ApplicatonContext and resources?

[ghaphswp]

Forgive me if this isn't the correct place to post - but it is project related.
My SL experience is still relatively young and i'm trying to prototype a framework for a new application in double quick time.

I'm following basic practices for localizing the UI at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838238(VS.95).aspx.

I found that my silverlightFX window was always falling back to the neutral resource. I traced it to the fact that the silverlightFX applicationContext starting event fires before the application startUp event. From what i could tell i had two choices, modify the silverlightFX code or derive from the applicationContext class. The latter was cleaner. Here it is:

public class ApplicationStartupEventArgs : EventArgs
{
public IDictionary<string, string> StartupArgs { get; set; }
}

public class ResourceAwareApplicationContext : ApplicationContext
{
protected EventHandler _startupHandler;

/// <summary>
/// The event raised when the application is starting. This event occurs before the silverlightFX applicationContext
/// initialises the theme or the main window.
/// </summary>
public event EventHandler<ApplicationStartupEventArgs>  Starting
{
  add
  {
    _startupHandler = (EventHandler<ApplicationStartupEventArgs>)Delegate.Combine(_startupHandler, value);
  }
  remove
  {
    _startupHandler = (EventHandler<ApplicationStartupEventArgs>)Delegate.Remove(_startupHandler, value);
  }
}

protected override void OnStarting()
{
  if (this._startupHandler != null)
    this._startupHandler(this, new ApplicationStartupEventArgs() { StartupArgs = this.StartupArguments });

  base.OnStarting();
}

}

This works well for now. My question is is this the correct approach? Did i miss something simple that the silverlightFX framework provides?

Thanks.

[nikhilk]

Can you tell me what you're doing in the Starting event handler that handles the event you introduced?

Based on that I'd like to look into a few things:

1. What can ApplicationContext do in OnStarting before the Application's startup event.
2. What an app can do in the Startup event.
3. What ApplicationContext can do in its OnStarted event.
4. Finally how much of the resource and localization scenario can be baked in into ApplicationContext itself.