We’re going global. I’ve been tasked with refactoring our existing products to support localization. Last week I shunned using resource files (.resx) in favor of a home-baked database look-up method. After hitting a serious snag with that, I’m back to the microsoft way of using resx.
All the documentation I’ve seen so far details how to create new “World-Ready” applications, but I don’t see anything on changing existing applications. Is my only recourse to touch the application form by form and control by control to have it point to newly created resource files?
Any good sources/links for internationalizing your apps?
Edit:
These are C# winform apps using mostly 2.0 framework I believe. I’m new with the company.
Sorry, no good sources or links for internationalizing your appolication,but maybe using this resource refactoring tool together with the localization FxCop rule might help to find all strings to localize. Imo, this rule is too strict (exception texts or logging output for example are not meant to be read by the enduser) but your mileage may vary.