Resources in a windows form application

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Hello.

I want to create a windows form application on visual studio 2008.
It is my first time.

I want to have two languages (french and english) so I create resources files but I don't know how to use it.

How can I use the resources files in my code?

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Posted 10-Jul-13 19:36pm

stephane1301

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demius · Answer 1 · 2013-07-10T19:50:00

In short, resource files are used to store things, from text to images. Resource files can be targeted to different locales.You would essentially have a resource file for every locale (or language) you wish to support. In your case, you'd need two, one for English and one for French.

Here's an MSDN tutorial describing the process step-by-step: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y99d1cd3(v=vs.100).aspx[^]

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2013-07-10T19:56:00

You actually need to create not just resources. You have to do all the development in one culture, and put all you need in resources. Resources for other cultures should be placed in the special resource-only satellite assemblies. They should be placed on subdirectories named bu cultures. This way, as soon as you change culture and UI culture of your thread, resources will be automatically (re)loaded to required culture or the nearest found culture, using the fallback process.

Start here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647353.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa292205%28v=vs.71%29.aspx[^].

See also my past answers:
globalization/localization problem in winform .net[^],
globalization in winforms[^].

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