Multi-Language Add-In for Visual Studio

> Hello Phil,
>
> Since last versions, I'm getting this warning when compiling:
>
> Warning 24 The field 'MultiLang.ml.RootNamespace' is assigned but its value is never used \MlString.cs
>
> I assume you use the RootNamespace field somewhere on the design time? We have a policy of "no warnings" allowed, and it'd be nice to not have this one coming up for every project on the solution.
>
> Can I comment out those lines without causing any trouble to the design time component? A parameter to not create those? Fixes would be mostly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> caco

Posted by Phil on Sun 26 of Jul, 2009 21:09 GMT

I made a change to the template file for MlString.cs quite a long time ago.

To open the resource file, it needs to know the RootNamespace of the project. Originally, it simply fetched the name of the assembly with

static ml()
{
  string RootNamespace = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name ;
  ResMgr = new ResourceManager ( RootNamespace + ".MultiLang", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() ) ; //MLHIDE
}

This is usually correct, but not always. I never found a reliable way to programatically determine the RootNamespace of the running project, but I did find an easy way to determine if from within the Add-In.

Therefore I added code to the Add-In to insert a constant string with the RootNamespace into this module, and changed the code in the template file to use this constant.

// Inserted by the Add-In
private static string RootNamespace = "SimpleEditor" ; //MLHIDE

static ml()
{
  ResMgr = new ResourceManager ( RootNamespace + ".MultiLang", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly ( ) ) ; //MLHIDE
}

I guess that you have an old version of MlString.cs. The Add-In has inserted the definition of RootNamespace, but the old version noes not use it.

I suggest that you change the code in the static constructor. You can copy it from here, or from the template file
<program files>\MultiLang2005\Templates\MlString.cs

Phil

Thanks again Phil!!

Regards,
caco