Multi-Language Add-In for Visual Studio

Posted by Phil on Tue 30 of Jun, 2015 20:10 GMT

Hi,

there has been a change, but it was in September 2012 with version 5.0x.0044.

Formerly, MultiLang.resx was stored in App_GlobalResources for all Web projects. Starting with 5.0x.0044 Multi-Language makes a distinction between Web-Applications and Wep-Projects. For Web-Sites it is still stored in App_GlobalResources. For Web-Applications it is stored in the root directory.

At the same time, it looks like I created different templates for the "ML string module" for these two project types.

Maybe everything will work correctly if you update the code in this file (MlString.cs or MlString.vb). You should be able to find the template files via the Multi-Language options dialog and then clicking on the browse button next to the filename to see the real path.

Without digging a bit deeper, I'm not really sure why I made this change.

What is your specific problem? Does the project not run correctly?

Phil

Hello Phil,

Thanks for your quick replay. You are right; we used before the version 4.7 (and not version 5.x as mentioned above). Moreover, the application is a “Web Project”.

Anyway, I removed the old resources and MIString.cs file. When I started ML tool and clicked on “Store resources for web project”, a new MIString.cs and new MultiLang.xx.resx files were created on the top of the project folder. However, all another resource files in the folder App_GlobalResources were overwritten (Some items in resource files were removed). These resources are used from our own code.

Is there a way to avoid overwriting this resource files?

Ahmad

Posted by Phil on Wed 01 of Jul, 2015 22:19 GMT

Hello Ahmad,

Multi-Language has three tabs, for Controls/ASP, Source code and Resources. I'm not even sure if it had the third tab for resources in version 4.7, but I have been steadily giving it more importance.

Any additional resource files which you have in the folder App_GlobalResources should show up in the resources tab. You should be able to select strings in this tab, just like in the other two tabs.

If a string is selected in the resources tab, then you can enter translations and it should be written to the (original) neutral-language version and to the language specific version.

If a string is not selected in the resources tab, then it should still be written to the neutral-language resource file, but not to any language specific files.

When Multi-Language writes any resource file, it is careful to preserve any resources which is not handling. This basically includes non string resources, for example images.

Multi-Language should not simply remove any resources which are being used.

You said that some resources were removed.

Were the resources removed from the neutral-language resource file (e.g. MyResources.resx) or from a language specific resource file (e.g. MyResources.es.resx)?

Were they string resources?

Do you know if they showed up in the resources tab?

Phil

Hi Phil,

The resources removed from all language specific resource files (in some resource files only one resource item stay and the rest were removed). All of those resources are strings.

These items are displayed in the resources tab. However, ML could not load all translation strings from language specific resource files. I think that ML could not recognize correctly in some situations the link between items in the neutral-language resource file and those in language specific resource files by using the “Name” field.

Is there an option to avoid scanning/storing resource files? I tried to ignore resource modules, but it did not work.