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WP7 App Resources Translator using Bing services

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13 Oct 2010CPOL 16K   2   4
To translate App Resources
I have to translate my AppResources from english to the other 4 languages available at the moment in WP7. So I decided to create a snippet to translate it, Of course simply change the TargetLanguage to get the translated section.

What you have to do is:
1.- Create the AppResources.es-ES.resx,AppResources.it-IT.resx and else in your WP7 app.
2.- Have an AppID for Bing Services.
3.- Add the following code to a WPF/SL app with the Bing Service reference.
4.- Copy from the first to the last from the resx.file like:

</data lang="xml">data name="alanguage" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>Answer Language</value>
  </data>
  <data name="animage" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>An image!</value>
  </data>
  <data name="bonus" xml:space="preserve">
    <value>BONUS </value>
  </data>


The Code:

String source;
        List<String> words;
        String TargetLanguage = "it";
        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            source = textBox1.Text;
            List<String> input = (from prod in source.Split(new string[] { "<data ", "</data>" }, StringSplitOptions.None).ToList()
                                  where prod.Contains("name")
                                  select prod).ToList();
            words = new List<string>();
            Int32 odx, fdx = -1;
            input.ForEach(inp =>
            {
                odx = inp.IndexOf("<value>") + "<value>".Length;
                fdx = inp.IndexOf("</value>");
                words.Add(inp.Substring(odx, fdx - odx));
            });
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(" ");
            words.ForEach(s => sb.Append(String.Concat("| ", s, " ")));
            TranslateWord(sb.ToString(),"en",TargetLanguage,ProcessTranslated);
        }
        public static void TranslateWord(string source,string SourceL,string TargetL,Func<List<String>,bool> ProcessTranslated)
        {
            List<string> ret = new List<string>();
            SearchRequest request = new SearchRequest();
            request.Sources = new SourceType[] { SourceType.Translation };
            request.AppId = "YOURAPPID";
            request.Query = source;
            TranslationRequest tr = new TranslationRequest();
            tr.SourceLanguage = SourceL;
            tr.TargetLanguage = TargetL;
            request.Translation = tr;
            BingPortTypeClient client = new BingPortTypeClient();
            client.SearchCompleted += (s, e) =>
                            {
                                String result = e.Result.Translation.Results[0].TranslatedTerm;
                                ret = result.Split('|').ToList();
                                ret.ForEach(s2 =>
                                {
                                    if (s2.Length > 0 && s2[0] == ' ')
                                        s2 = s2.Trim();
                                });
                                ret.RemoveAt(0);
                                ProcessTranslated(ret);
                            };
            client.SearchAsync(request);
        }
        public bool ProcessTranslated(List<string> input)
        {
            if(input.Count == words.Count)
            {
                words.ForEach(w => source = source.Replace("<value>"+w, "<value>"+input[words.IndexOf(w)].Substring(1)));
            }
            textBox2.Text = source.Replace(" </value>","</value>");
            return true;
        }


And that's all, replace textBox2.Text the result in the .it-IT.resx and else. It may work in WPF and SL too.

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Comments and Discussions

 
GeneralI wouldn't use this in any real scenario Pin
tec-goblin18-Oct-10 11:23
tec-goblin18-Oct-10 11:23 
While technically it's quite cute, experience with automatic translation, particularly for short context-dependent terms like resource files is... let's say tragic. I mean you won't even get to 50% success.
GeneralRe: I wouldn't use this in any real scenario Pin
Juan Pablo G.C.18-Oct-10 23:02
Juan Pablo G.C.18-Oct-10 23:02 
GeneralRe: I wouldn't use this in any real scenario Pin
tec-goblin19-Oct-10 11:39
tec-goblin19-Oct-10 11:39 
GeneralRe: I wouldn't use this in any real scenario Pin
Juan Pablo G.C.19-Oct-10 21:35
Juan Pablo G.C.19-Oct-10 21:35 

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