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dotnet internationalization : VS 2005 / Winres

quilkin
12/8/2004 9:15:02 AM

Visual Studio 2005 (beta) has a new facility, winres, to make it easier to
hand out translation work to third parties. However this results in .resx
files which need converting via resgen.exe and then al.exe - both of these
are command-line apps which need careful attention to file paths etc and the
process is very error-prone. Is there any way to automate this - should there
be a facility within Visual Studio? Is there a site where feedback on the

Aldo Donetti [MS]
12/9/2004 2:03:44 PM

The process automation, as of now, is achieved only by means of third party
applications.

Here you can find a pretty long list of tools
http://www.i18nguy.com/TranslationTools.html
and here some comparisions
http://www.multilingual.com/FMPro?-db=archives&-format=ourpublication%2ffeaturedarticlesdetail.htm&-lay=cgi&-sortfield=magazine%20number&-sortorder=descend&-op=eq&Ad%20Type=reprint&-max=5&-recid=33407&-token=%5bFMP-currenttoken%5d&-find=

This http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx is the site
where you can post all your suggestions, comments and bugs.

HTH
Aldo

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Ted
12/10/2004 11:07:58 PM

Winres.exe is not new, it has been around as long as the .NET Framework has
been around - it's part of the .NET Framework SDK (e.g. C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin)

Ted.

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