diff --git a/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netfx/ref/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.cs b/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netfx/ref/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.cs
index 6371d4fbca..fbf24cea0e 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netfx/ref/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netfx/ref/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 // The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 // See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
 [assembly: System.CLSCompliant(true)]
+[assembly: System.Resources.NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute("en-US")]
 namespace Microsoft.Data
 {
     /// <include file='..\..\..\..\doc\snippets\Microsoft.Data\OperationAbortedException.xml' path='docs/members[@name="OperationAbortedException"]/OperationAbortedException/*' />
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netfx/tools/targets/GenerateAssemblyInfo.targets b/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netfx/tools/targets/GenerateAssemblyInfo.targets
index 334b629788..541cb245a6 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netfx/tools/targets/GenerateAssemblyInfo.targets
+++ b/src/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/netfx/tools/targets/GenerateAssemblyInfo.targets
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
             <AssemblyInfo Include="[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion(&quot;$(AssemblyFileVersion)&quot;)]" />
             <AssemblyInfo Include="[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion(&quot;$(Version)&quot;)]" />
             <AssemblyInfo Include="[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration(&quot;$(Configuration)&quot;)]" />
+            <AssemblyInfo Include="[assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage(&quot;en-US&quot;)]" />
         </ItemGroup>
         <MakeDir Directories="$(IntermediateOutputPath)" />
         <WriteLinesToFile File="$(IntermediateOutputPath)$(AssemblyName).AssemblyInfo.cs" Overwrite="True" Lines="@(AssemblyInfo)" />