The answer is simple. It should work. But it does not.
There is clearly a bug in Microsoft's tool CABWiz used by Visual Studio to generate CAB files. It has a problem when using files with the same name in different subfolders, like when using localizations.
After hours of trying to fix it, I ended up whith a solution inspired by the CodeProject guide as given by Cornel in the previous answer : You have to "hack" the Visual Studio process of generating CAB, by using resource files with unique name, and then modifying the INF file to specify the original name for deployment on the device.
To automatize a little more, I made a little EXE that is launched as project post-build :
FileInfo CurrentExeInfo = new FileInfo(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
// Current Folder + bin\Debug
DirectoryInfo BinDebug = new DirectoryInfo( Path.Combine( CurrentExeInfo.Directory.FullName, @"bin\Debug") );
// Subfolders in \bin\Debug
Console.WriteLine(BinDebug.FullName);
string[] Dirs = Directory.GetDirectories(BinDebug.FullName, "*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
// In each localization folder ...
foreach (string Dir in Dirs)
{
DirectoryInfo DirInfo = new DirectoryInfo(Dir);
// ... Resource files
string[] RFiles = Directory.GetFiles(Dir, "*.resources.dll");
foreach (string RFile in RFiles)
{
FileInfo RFileInfo = new FileInfo(RFile);
bool DoCopy = false;
// No underscore in resource name
if (!RFileInfo.Name.Contains("_") || RFileInfo.Name.IndexOf("_") == 0)
{
DoCopy = true;
}
// underscore in resource name
// --> Have to check if already a copy
else
{
// prefix removal
int PrefixIndex = RFileInfo.Name.IndexOf("_");
string TestFilename = RFileInfo.Name.Substring(PrefixIndex + 1);
if (!File.Exists(Path.Combine(Dir, TestFilename)))
{
// File without underscore does not exist, so must copy
DoCopy = true;
}
}
if (DoCopy)
{
// Copy file
string NewFileName = Path.Combine(Dir, DirInfo.Name.ToUpper() + "_" + RFileInfo.Name);
Console.WriteLine("Copying " + RFile + " -> " + NewFileName);
File.Copy(RFile, NewFileName, true);
}
}
}
And then this CAB patcher after normal CAB generation :
const string cabwizpath = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\SmartDevices\SDK\SDKTools\cabwiz.exe";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
if (args.Length == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Aborted: You must enter the inf file information");
Console.ReadLine();
return;
}
if (!File.Exists(args[0]))
{
Console.WriteLine("Aborted: I can not found the INF file!");
Console.ReadLine();
return;
}
// string to search
Regex R = new Regex("\"[A-Z]{2,3}_(.+)\\.resources\\.dll\",\"([A-Z]{2,3})_(.+)\\.resources\\.dll\"");
// File reading
string inffile = File.ReadAllText(args[0]);
// Format replace from
// "FR_ProjectName.resources.dll","FR_ProjectName.resources.dll"
// To
// "ProjectName.resources.dll","FR_ProjectName.resources.dll"
inffile = R.Replace(inffile, "\"$1.resources.dll\",\"$2_$3.resources.dll\"");
// Rewriting file
File.WriteAllText(args[0], inffile);
Console.WriteLine("INF file patched ...");
// Génération du CAB ...
Console.WriteLine("Generating correct CAB ... ");
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo proc = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("\"" + cabwizpath + "\"", "\"" + args[0] + "\"");
proc.ErrorDialog = true;
proc.UseShellExecute = false;
proc.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
Process CabWiz = Process.Start(proc);
Console.WriteLine("\""+cabwizpath + "\" \""+ args[0]+"\"");
CabWiz.WaitForExit();
Console.WriteLine("CAB file generated (" + CabWiz.ExitCode + ") !");
}
I hope it helps.
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