"Garrett McGowan[MSFT]" <GarrMc@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Krishnan. If I understand your question correctly, you want to localize
> the Text value for menu items in your WinForms application.
>
> The easiest way to do this is to simply mark the Localizable property for
> the form as True, change the target language in the Language property, and
> then edit the menu items on the form. When you load the resulting RESX
> file
> in the resource editor, it should show each menu name as you describe
> below
> (e.g., fileToolStripMenuItem.Text | &File). This is how it works for
> Visual
> Studio 2005, though the mechanics are the same for Visual Studio .NET
> 2003.
>
> Cheers,
> Garrett McGowan [MSFT Developer International]
>
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>>From: "Krishnan" <krishnan.ramaswami@newsgroups.nospam>
>>Subject: Localizing Menu Items - Help
>>Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:13:43 +0530
>>Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>The norm in .Net seems to be keying the name of the control in the
> resource
>>file for a value in the particular language. For e.g., if cmdOpen is a
>>commad button, then:
>>
>>MyResource.en-us.resx will contain:
>>key value
>>---- -------
>>cmdOpen.Text Open
>>
>>and, MyResource.fr-FR.resx will contain:
>>key value
>>---- ------
>>cmdOpen.Text Ouvrez
>>
>>However, this depends on accessing the "Name" property of the control at
>>runtime. Menus do not expose the name property. What is the thumb rule to
>>localize menus in dot net?
>>
>>TIA
>>Krishnan
>>
>>
>>
>