diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/CommonUtils.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/CommonUtils.cs
index cd2050f3d..e51685365 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/CommonUtils.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/CommonUtils.cs
@@ -3,19 +3,14 @@ using System.Collections;
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Text;
-
+using System.Resources;
+using System.Reflection;
 
 namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.Common
 {
 
-    internal class CommonUtilities
+    internal static class CommonUtilities
     {
-        //
-        // No-op private ctor to prevent the default ctor from getting generated.
-        // This class is intended to only have static members.
-        //
-        private CommonUtilities() {
}
-
         //
         // StringArrayToString helper converts a string array into a comma-separated string.
         // Note this has only limited use, individual strings cannot have commas.
@@ -117,6 +112,12 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.Common
             return formatError;
         }
 
+        public static ResourceManager GetResourceManager()
+        {
+            // this naming pattern is dictated by the dotnet cli
+            return new ResourceManager("Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.resources.GetEventResources", typeof(CommonUtilities).GetTypeInfo().Assembly);
+        }
+
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/CounterSample.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/CounterSample.cs
index 29bdd7845..a7cdd86d1 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/CounterSample.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/CounterSample.cs
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetCounter
     {
         internal PerformanceCounterSampleSet()
         {
-            _resourceMgr = new ResourceManager("GetEventResources", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
+            _resourceMgr = Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.Common.CommonUtilities.GetResourceManager();
         }
 
         internal  PerformanceCounterSampleSet (DateTime timeStamp,
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/ExportCounterCommand.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/ExportCounterCommand.cs
index 9104fc838..49246e66f 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/ExportCounterCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/ExportCounterCommand.cs
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
     protected override void BeginProcessing()
     {
 
-        _resourceMgr = new ResourceManager("GetEventResources", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
+        _resourceMgr = Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.Common.CommonUtilities.GetResourceManager();
 
         //
         // Determine the OS version: this cmdlet requires Windows 7
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/GetCounterCommand.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/GetCounterCommand.cs
index b0eac6410..815f10705 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/GetCounterCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/GetCounterCommand.cs
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
     //
     protected override void BeginProcessing()
     {
-        _resourceMgr = new ResourceManager("GetEventResources", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
+        _resourceMgr = Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.Common.CommonUtilities.GetResourceManager();
      
         _pdhHelper = new PdhHelper(System.Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major < 6);
         uint res = _pdhHelper.ConnectToDataSource();              
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/GetEventCommand.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/GetEventCommand.cs
index 019c0b014..f8dfa499a 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/GetEventCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/GetEventCommand.cs
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
     //
     protected override void BeginProcessing()
     {
-        _resourceMgr = new ResourceManager("GetEventResources", typeof(GetWinEventCommand).GetTypeInfo().Assembly);
+        _resourceMgr = Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.Common.CommonUtilities.GetResourceManager();
     }
 
         
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/ImportCounterCommand.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/ImportCounterCommand.cs
index a54c5e7b5..ffa460119 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/ImportCounterCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/ImportCounterCommand.cs
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
     //
     protected override void BeginProcessing()
     {
-        _resourceMgr = new ResourceManager("GetEventResources", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
+        _resourceMgr = Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.Common.CommonUtilities.GetResourceManager();
         _pdhHelper = new PdhHelper(System.Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major < 6);
     }    
 
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/NewWinEventCommand.cs b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/NewWinEventCommand.cs
index 7c4326540..0f80fa729 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/NewWinEventCommand.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/NewWinEventCommand.cs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Xml;
 using System.IO;
-
+    
 namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
 {
     /// 
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands
 
         private const string TemplateTag = "template";
         private const string DataTag = "data";
-        private ResourceManager _resourceMgr = new ResourceManager("GetEventResources", typeof(NewWinEventCommand).GetTypeInfo().Assembly);
+        private ResourceManager _resourceMgr = Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics.Common.CommonUtilities.GetResourceManager();
 
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/project.json b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/project.json
index 9796030c2..231795604 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/project.json
+++ b/src/Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Diagnostics/project.json
@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@
             "ExportCounterCommand.cs",
             "GetCounterCommand.cs",
             "ImportCounterCommand.cs",
-            "CounterFileInfo.cs",
-            "CommonUtils.cs"
+            "CounterFileInfo.cs"
           ]
         }
       }