localization

[brain2cpu]

After years of development I get to my first multilanguage application, and I have a problem. The windows forms part is almost ok: create the form with localize true, design it for default, after that load the form for every language, edit every text of every component - quite annoying.... but it works. The problem is with strings (messages to the user). My first idea was to store them as resource strings, but resource does not have a language so a winforms-like approach not works. Now I store strings in external text files but this way is plain ugly. Please, please shed some light - what would be the good way... (using Visual Studio 2005)

[lmoelleb]

Have you tried creating a resx file for each language using the appropriate name (see the name of the resx files created by Visual Studio for the dialogs to determine the name)? Sorry I can't say anything for sure, I have only been doing enterprise level localization which involved a home build localization tool compiling the resx files. If you are going to do a reasonable size project, or more than one or two languages, consider buying a localization tool - they work MUCH better than VS (even though the tools you an buy are actually pretty bad they do have basic functionality missing in VS).