Discovered something quite by accident today. If you use an embedded file in a VS.Net project and have the filename in the format [basename].[locale].[extension] (example: MyInfo.en-US.xml), VS.Net automatically presumes that this is a culture-specific resource, puts it in a separate assembly and drops it into a subfolder of the main “bin” folder. The subfolder has the same name as the locale.

I am not sure if there’s an easy way around it, but for now, I simply removed the locale from the filename and it works as expected.