These versions are implemented as Visual Studio Add-In. Older versions are still available for Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 20. Multi-Language for Visual Studio is now implemented as a Visual Studio package.Ī single VSIX installation file supports Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 20. if necessary, new dialog and menu resources are generated for individual languages.the texts in existing dialog and menu resources are updated.all texts are exported to string table resources.changing the language when the program is runningįor unmanaged C++ projects, Multi-Language exports translations to the resource script (.rc) file in three steps:.selecting the language from a list when the program is started.Using Multi-Language you can add additional support for NET runtime environment will load the localized texts for the default system language. The standard localization support in the. Storing translations and adding runtime supportĪfter entering translations using Multi-Language, the texts are exported to resource files in the. import the translated texts back into the project from the spreadsheet have the texts translated in the spreadsheet In most cases, you will need to send the texts to a translator. This is the best approach, if the programmer is able to translate the texts herself or himself.Įnter translations with Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Multi-Language also contains a translation memory feature, which shows you translations of other texts containing the same words. Multi-Language contains a database of common translations, so terms such as OK and Cancel will usually be translated automatically. This makes it easy to identify where and how the text is used. When you click in a cell, Multi-Language will immediately show the location of the text in the source code, or in a designer window. The simplest way to enter a translation is to type it into the grid.
The one you choose probably depends on who is going to do the translation work. There are two basic ways to enter translations. Simply select a language from the list to add it to the project.įor each language, an additional column is added to the grids, showing the strings for this language. Multi-Language shows you a list of all languages supported by Windows. Multi-Language for Visual Studio makes it easy to start this job late in project development. Selecting the texts which require translation is a job which can only be performed by the programmer. In many cases, translating a string will actually cause a program error. Most programs contain a lot of text strings which do not require translation. hide texts which you do not wish to translate.select the texts which you wish to translate.Multi-Language shows all texts detected in the source code. Multi-Language shows all string properties with the Localizable attribute.įor ASP.NET projects, it also shows static text from the HTML code.įor MFC projects (unmanaged C++) Multi-Language shows the texts in dialog and menu resources defined in the resource script (.rc) file. NET controls, the properties which can be translated are marked with the Localizable attribute. Multi-Language scans your project, looking for strings defined inįor. The basic steps involved in localizing an application are: The localization support is based on the built in localization support in Visual Studio and in the. The product is implemented as a Visual Studio Package, which means that it is tightly integrated into the development environment itself. I repeated the same for a new culture (afrikaans), to discover any changes in the form properties: I found nothing that could help me, but now I get two subfolders.Multi-Language for Visual Studio provides extended support for creating localized applications using Microsoft Visual Studio.
I repeated the same for a new culture (afrikaans), to discover any changes in the form properties: I found nothing that could help me, but now I get two subfolders.: \de and \af I cannot understand what is changed in my application now: why does the compiler create a localized resource if I set back the form properties? I deleted the whole \debug folder, but after each build, I get always the \de subfolder. I have controlled each form in my application, the My Project setting too, Then I set back the "Language" property to (Default) and "Localizable" to FALSE and built again the application, but the \de folder with its were created again. I built the application and in my \bin\debug folder it was created a new \de folder with the localized resource file "".
I changed the "Language" property of a winform of my application to german, only for testing purpose. I have a winform application written with vb2010. I do not know if I am posting in right forum, but I do not know which would be appropriate.