Tool in Visual Studio 2008 for helping with Localization

Question

Does anyone have any recommendations of tools that can be of assistance with moving literal values into resource files for localization?

I've used a resharper plugin called RGreatX but was wondering if there is anything else out there.

It's one heck of a long manual process for moving the strings across and think there must be a better way! RGreatX is OK but could be a bit slicker I feel.

Answer 1

Here's one:

http://www.codeplex.com/ResourceRefactoring

It'a actually a Microsoft "open source" Visual Studio(2005 and up) tool that integrates with the IDE. You can easily replace every occurence of a string with a ressource reference with a few clicks.

Answer 2

ReSharper itself (5.0+) now has support for localization which includes moving strings to resource files and highlighting localizabile strings.

Answer 3

You may find Zeta Resource Editor useful too.

Answer 4

Try Visual Localizer - you can batch-process whole code, select which strings may be localized and the tool will add them to a resource file and create a reference instead. Many other features easing localization are included.