Comments on: Localizing my WinForms App http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:20:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ben Reichelt’s Weblog » Alright, so it was easier than I thought http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Ben Reichelt’s Weblog » Alright, so it was easier than I thought Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:19:15 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/#comment-36 [...] Ok, so it turns out to be very easy to localize a form in Visual Studio.  As David mentioned in the comments on my previous post, all you need to do is set the Localizable property to true, and the VS designer will generate code to pull the strings from a resource file. [...] [...] Ok, so it turns out to be very easy to localize a form in Visual Studio.  As David mentioned in the comments on my previous post, all you need to do is set the Localizable property to true, and the VS designer will generate code to pull the strings from a resource file. [...]

]]> By: ben http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/comment-page-1/#comment-35 ben Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:12:03 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/#comment-35 David, thats ironic that you just left that comment. I read that somewhere and just finished up localizing the app right about the time you commented :) The app now passes all the default FxCop rules too! David, thats ironic that you just left that comment. I read that somewhere and just finished up localizing the app right about the time you commented :) The app now passes all the default FxCop rules too!

]]> By: David M. Kean http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/comment-page-1/#comment-34 David M. Kean Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:05:08 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/#comment-34 Ben, Simply set Localizable to true in the properties of the Form. This will causes the WIndows Forms Designer to automatically pull strings from resource files. Regards David Ben,

Simply set Localizable to true in the properties of the Form. This will causes the WIndows Forms Designer to automatically pull strings from resource files.

Regards

David

]]> By: ben http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/comment-page-1/#comment-33 ben Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:15:18 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/#comment-33 Jim, typically you place all the literal strings into a separate assembly for each language, then you load that satellite assembly based on the culture settings. What I would like to see is some designer support for this. I wish that I could tell each control the name of the resource string to load at runtime and have it all happen automatically, detecting the culture, etc. I am considering subclassing the typical controls to make them "culture aware" on their own, but we'll see how it all shakes out :) Jim, typically you place all the literal strings into a separate assembly for each language, then you load that satellite assembly based on the culture settings.

What I would like to see is some designer support for this. I wish that I could tell each control the name of the resource string to load at runtime and have it all happen automatically, detecting the culture, etc.

I am considering subclassing the typical controls to make them “culture aware” on their own, but we’ll see how it all shakes out :)

]]> By: Jim Losi http://benreichelt.net/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Jim Losi Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:21:57 +0000 http://s194721765.onlinehome.us/blog/2006/07/26/localizing-my-winforms-app/#comment-32 can you abstract it out a bit more? like place the languages in an xml file and use a class to map the "words"? then bind your controls to what ever text was loaded into the "word" object? I have never done localization before, though I have thought about it and how I would do it. Just a thought ... Good luck :D can you abstract it out a bit more? like place the languages in an xml file and use a class to map the “words”? then bind your controls to what ever text was loaded into the “word” object?
I have never done localization before, though I have thought about it and how I would do it.

Just a thought …
Good luck :D

]]>