Click here to Skip to main content
15,892,746 members
Articles / Programming Languages / Visual Basic

VS.NET CodeDOM-Based Custom Tool for String Resource Management

Rate me:
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
4.52/5 (12 votes)
22 Jun 200413 min read 123.7K   1.1K   48  
A VS.NET custom tool, created with the help of CodeDOM and EnvDTE, used to facilitate management of resource strings via IntelliSense and error checking in VS.NET environment.
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;

using System.Globalization;
using System.Threading;

namespace TestCSharp
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Summary description for Form1.
	/// </summary>
	public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
	{
		internal System.Windows.Forms.Label lblCulture;
		internal System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox cmbCulture;
		internal System.Windows.Forms.Label lblTitle;
		internal System.Windows.Forms.Label Label5;
		internal System.Windows.Forms.Label Label4;
		internal System.Windows.Forms.Label Label3;
		internal System.Windows.Forms.Label Label2;
		internal System.Windows.Forms.Label Label1;
		/// <summary>
		/// Required designer variable.
		/// </summary>
		private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;

		public Form1()
		{
			//
			// Required for Windows Form Designer support
			//
			InitializeComponent();

			//
			// TODO: Add any constructor code after InitializeComponent call
			//
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Clean up any resources being used.
		/// </summary>
		protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
		{
			if( disposing )
			{
				if (components != null) 
				{
					components.Dispose();
				}
			}
			base.Dispose( disposing );
		}

		#region Windows Form Designer generated code
		/// <summary>
		/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
		/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
		/// </summary>
		private void InitializeComponent()
		{
			this.lblCulture = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.cmbCulture = new System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox();
			this.lblTitle = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.Label5 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.Label4 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.Label3 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.Label2 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.Label1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
			this.SuspendLayout();
			// 
			// lblCulture
			// 
			this.lblCulture.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 40);
			this.lblCulture.Name = "lblCulture";
			this.lblCulture.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(216, 16);
			this.lblCulture.TabIndex = 15;
			this.lblCulture.Text = "Select Culture";
			// 
			// cmbCulture
			// 
			this.cmbCulture.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 64);
			this.cmbCulture.Name = "cmbCulture";
			this.cmbCulture.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(232, 21);
			this.cmbCulture.TabIndex = 14;
			this.cmbCulture.Text = "Select Culture";
			this.cmbCulture.SelectedIndexChanged += new System.EventHandler(this.cmbCulture_SelectedIndexChanged);
			// 
			// lblTitle
			// 
			this.lblTitle.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Microsoft Sans Serif", 10F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, ((System.Byte)(238)));
			this.lblTitle.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 16);
			this.lblTitle.Name = "lblTitle";
			this.lblTitle.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(272, 16);
			this.lblTitle.TabIndex = 13;
			this.lblTitle.Text = "CSharp Test of ResourceClassGenerator";
			// 
			// Label5
			// 
			this.Label5.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 208);
			this.Label5.Name = "Label5";
			this.Label5.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(184, 16);
			this.Label5.TabIndex = 12;
			this.Label5.Text = "Label5";
			// 
			// Label4
			// 
			this.Label4.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 184);
			this.Label4.Name = "Label4";
			this.Label4.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(184, 16);
			this.Label4.TabIndex = 11;
			this.Label4.Text = "Label4";
			// 
			// Label3
			// 
			this.Label3.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 160);
			this.Label3.Name = "Label3";
			this.Label3.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(184, 16);
			this.Label3.TabIndex = 10;
			this.Label3.Text = "Label3";
			// 
			// Label2
			// 
			this.Label2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 136);
			this.Label2.Name = "Label2";
			this.Label2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(184, 16);
			this.Label2.TabIndex = 9;
			this.Label2.Text = "Label2";
			// 
			// Label1
			// 
			this.Label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(24, 112);
			this.Label1.Name = "Label1";
			this.Label1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(184, 16);
			this.Label1.TabIndex = 8;
			this.Label1.Text = "Label1";
			// 
			// Form1
			// 
			this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
			this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(304, 266);
			this.Controls.Add(this.lblCulture);
			this.Controls.Add(this.cmbCulture);
			this.Controls.Add(this.lblTitle);
			this.Controls.Add(this.Label5);
			this.Controls.Add(this.Label4);
			this.Controls.Add(this.Label3);
			this.Controls.Add(this.Label2);
			this.Controls.Add(this.Label1);
			this.Name = "Form1";
			this.Text = "Form1";
			this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_Load);
			this.ResumeLayout(false);

		}
		#endregion

		/// <summary>
		/// The main entry point for the application.
		/// </summary>
		[STAThread]
		static void Main() 
		{
			Application.Run(new Form1());
		}

		private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			cmbCulture.Items.Add(new DisplayCulture(new CultureInfo("en")));
			cmbCulture.Items.Add(new DisplayCulture(new CultureInfo("de")));
			cmbCulture.SelectedIndex = 0;
			Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ((DisplayCulture)cmbCulture.SelectedItem).Culture;
			FillLabels();
		}

		private void FillLabels()
		{
			//This is how resources are fetched 
			//note the intellisense and how the tool forces you to use the correct number of arguments
			Label1.Text = Resources.Strings.Label1.GetString();
			Label2.Text = Resources.Strings.Label2.GetString("arg1", "arg2");
			Label3.Text = Resources.Strings.Label3.GetString();
			Label4.Text = Resources.Strings.Label4.GetString();
			Label5.Text = Resources.Strings.Label5.GetString();
		}

		private void cmbCulture_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ((DisplayCulture)cmbCulture.SelectedItem).Culture;
			FillLabels();
		}

		private class DisplayCulture
		{
			public DisplayCulture(CultureInfo culture)
			{
				_culture = culture;
			}

			private CultureInfo _culture;
			/// <summary>
			/// Property Culture (CultureInfo)
			/// </summary>
			public CultureInfo Culture
			{
				get
				{
					return _culture;
				}
			}

			public override string ToString()
			{
				return _culture.EnglishName;
			}
		}

	}
}

By viewing downloads associated with this article you agree to the Terms of Service and the article's licence.

If a file you wish to view isn't highlighted, and is a text file (not binary), please let us know and we'll add colourisation support for it.

License

This article has no explicit license attached to it but may contain usage terms in the article text or the download files themselves. If in doubt please contact the author via the discussion board below.

A list of licenses authors might use can be found here


Written By
Software Developer Mono Ltd
Croatia Croatia
This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Comments and Discussions