Hi all gurus,
I've seen that VS2005 has a nice new feature (string refactoring) for
C#, namely a tool to generate resources from string. Since it's not
available in VS2003, I started creating a new macro, to be used for
localizing strings embedded in .vb files, by creating resources in a
resx file and then retreiving them with a ResourceManager.GetString.
Here is the macro code:

=========================Macro code========================
Sub main()
Dim valore As String = ActiveDocument().Selection.text()
If valore.StartsWith("""") And valore.EndsWith("""") Then
valore = valore.Substring(1, valore.Length - 2)
Dim nome As String = ActiveDocument().Name()
nome = nome.Substring(0, nome.Length - 3) + ".resx"
Dim rwr As New System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter(nome)
Dim key As String = InputBox("Nome della risorsa?", ,
"_MsgBox_Load.Msg")
rwr.AddResource(key, valore)
rwr.Generate()
rwr.Close()
rwr = Nothing
ActiveDocument().Selection.text() = "rsrc.GetString(""" +
key + """)"
valore = InputBox(valore, "Traduzione della risorsa",
valore)
rwr = New
System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter(nome.Replace("resx", "en.resx"))
rwr.AddResource(key, valore)
rwr.Generate()
rwr.Close()
rwr = Nothing
Dim resType As System.Type
Dim rsmgr As System.Resources.ResourceManager =
System.Resources.ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager(nome.Sub
string(0, nome.IndexOf(".")), "C:\Documents and
Settings\Saverio.PBELL.000\Documenti\Visual Studio Projects\Fence!",
resType)
valore = rsmgr.GetString(key)
rsmgr = Nothing
Else
MsgBox("La selezione deve iniziare e finire sulle
virgolette", , "Sostituzione non valida")
End If
End Sub
===================End of Macro code=======================

Launching macro in debug, it seems to run flawlessy, and even the
"GetString" (inserted for control purposes only) renders the desired
string. The resx files are the same (say frmMain.resx and
frmMain.en.resx for the files associated with frmMain.vb) used by VB
project to store localized text for Windows Form controls (which work
correctly switching from a culture to another one, dft to "en-US", at
the moment). However, opening this file (after the macro execution) with
IDE shows no added string nor anything else, while the desired string
has been correctly replaced in .vb source code with the right call to
ResourceManager.GetString(key). What could be the problem? Thx 4 any
clue.

Well, it seems that this time I'm goin' to answer by myself. I don't
know if some1 is interested, but: getting "Name" in macro causes
resources to be written in a separate .aspx file, under
%Windir%\System32 dir, and it's necessary to get "FullName" instead.
However, there's a caveat: WriteResources replace file content, so
before writing, it's necessary to rebuild file content.
Happy new year!