Localizing asp.net applications
I’ve recently had to localize a large software as a service application to support multiple european languages. Overall this was pretty straight forward – because I found a couple of really useful tools.
Resex – This is a resource file editor. It lets you edit a set of resource files side by side – which is very helpful when your trying to figure out what’s been translated and whats still to got. This is especally important when your doing the first translation pass through you app pulling literal strings out of code.
Resource Refactoring Tool – a super easy to use Visual Studio addin which adds a Refactor to Resource refactoring to the ide. It doesn’t currently support any Web project types – but it was still really useful for class library projects.
I was out of time to add Web project support to the Resource Refactoring Tool – so I ended up writing a VS macro to help with the localization of .aspx pages. This was pretty specific to my environment – but it worked well enough.
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