"Mikael Sorensen" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Using Visual Studio 2005 SP1.
>
> I'm getting an unexpected result when adding localized satellite
> assemblies to a .NET CF 2.0 CAB project.
>
> How to reproduce:
> Create a new smart device Windows Mobile 5.0 project
> ("DeviceApplication1").
> Add two resource files to the project ("DeviceApplication1.en-US.resx" and
> "DeviceApplication1.da-DK.resx").
> Add a localized string-value to the two resource files.
> Build the project.
> Add a smart device CAB project to the solution ("SmartDeviceCab1").
> Add "Primary Output" and "Localized resources" from "DeviceApplication1"
> as project output for "SmartDeviceCab1".
> Build the CAB project.
>
> Instead of installing the cab on a device, extract the cab file. The cab
> file should among others contain two files of equal size (probably
> "DEVICE~1.002" and "DEVICE~1.003"). This is the satellite assemblies.
> Do a binary comparison of the two files. The content of the two resource
> files is expected to be different, but it is not. Both files contain the
> resource strings from one of the resource files.
>
> This means that the application is not localized when it is deployed to
> the device using the cab file.
>
> If you compare the assemblies build from the *.resx files,
> "...\DeviceApplication1\obj\Debug\da-DK\DeviceApplication1.resources.dll"
> and
> "...\DeviceApplication1\obj\Debug\en-US\DeviceApplication1.resources.dll",
> they have a different content (as you would have expected), so the error
> seems to be related to the cab build process.
>
> Am I missing something here, or is there a bug in the cabwiz-tool?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Mikael Sorensen
>

"Ilya Tumanov [MS]" <ilyatum@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> See this:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework/browse_thread/thread/9fc08a77dd76cfe9/3bcbf7434f2a1be4?&hl=en#3bcbf7434f2a1be4
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Ilya
>
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> "Mikael Sorensen" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:u$2Si1LRHHA.2172@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Using Visual Studio 2005 SP1.
>>
>> I'm getting an unexpected result when adding localized satellite
>> assemblies to a .NET CF 2.0 CAB project.
>>
>> How to reproduce:
>> Create a new smart device Windows Mobile 5.0 project
>> ("DeviceApplication1").
>> Add two resource files to the project ("DeviceApplication1.en-US.resx"
>> and "DeviceApplication1.da-DK.resx").
>> Add a localized string-value to the two resource files.
>> Build the project.
>> Add a smart device CAB project to the solution ("SmartDeviceCab1").
>> Add "Primary Output" and "Localized resources" from "DeviceApplication1"
>> as project output for "SmartDeviceCab1".
>> Build the CAB project.
>>
>> Instead of installing the cab on a device, extract the cab file. The cab
>> file should among others contain two files of equal size (probably
>> "DEVICE~1.002" and "DEVICE~1.003"). This is the satellite assemblies.
>> Do a binary comparison of the two files. The content of the two resource
>> files is expected to be different, but it is not. Both files contain the
>> resource strings from one of the resource files.
>>
>> This means that the application is not localized when it is deployed to
>> the device using the cab file.
>>
>> If you compare the assemblies build from the *.resx files,
>> "...\DeviceApplication1\obj\Debug\da-DK\DeviceApplication1.resources.dll"
>> and
>> "...\DeviceApplication1\obj\Debug\en-US\DeviceApplication1.resources.dll",
>> they have a different content (as you would have expected), so the error
>> seems to be related to the cab build process.
>>
>> Am I missing something here, or is there a bug in the cabwiz-tool?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mikael Sorensen
>>
>
>

"Cocotteseb" <cocotteseb@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ilya,
>
> Do you think it will be corrected in Orcas (and/or in CF 3.5)? Indeed
> it is great to have a workaround but when you have several languages
> and when you add others, it becomes fastidious.
> (please ;) )
>
> Thanks
>