ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released!

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2012/02/16/asp-net-4-beta-released.aspx

ASP.NET Web API

The big new feature since the Developer Preview is the introduction of ASP.NET Web API.

ASP.NET Web API is built for all the other, non-human interactions your site or service needs to support

How to Retrieve Resource Values Programmatically in ASP.NET

        Button1.Text = GetLocalResourceObject("Button1.Text").ToString();
        Image1.ImageUrl =     (String)GetGlobalResourceObject(
            "WebResourcesGlobal", "LogoUrl");
Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms227982(v=vs.80).aspx