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Resource ID Organiser Add-In for Visual C++ 5.0/6.0/.NET

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An application/add-in to organise and renumber resource symbol IDs
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<h1 align="center">Resource ID Organiser version 1.6</h1>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.riverblade.co.uk/products/resorg">http://www.riverblade.co.uk/products/resorg</a></p>
<p align="center"><br> Copyright (c) 2000-2005 by Riverblade Limited. All Rights 
Reserved</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>General</h3>
<p><br> The Resource ID Organiser is an add-in for <b>Visual C++ 5.0 or 6.0</b> 
which is designed to simplify the chore of maintaining the resource ID files 
used by the Visual C++ Resource Editor to define symbols. It provides the following 
facilities:
<ul type="disc">
    <li>View the symbols in a given resource symbol file, including identifying 
    any symbols with duplicated values within that file 
    <li>Renumber the symbols within a file 
    <li>Add, edit or delete symbols. 
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Please use caution whilst using this application:
<ul type="disc">
    <li>Remember that renaming or removing symbols which are used in a resource 
    or implementation file will prevent your code from compiling. 
    <li>Visual C++ can be too clever for its own good when it comes to determining 
    which files to rebuild, and frequently fails to spot changes to resource 
    symbol definitions. If all else fails, try cleaning the project and rebuilding. 
    
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<p>ResOrg comes in two flavours - an Application <b>(ResOrg.exe</b>) and a Visual 
C++ Add-In (<b>ResOrgAddIn.dll</b>). The installation program will install both 
versions into the selected directory (<i>C:\Program Files\Riverblade\ResOrg</i> 
by default).</p>
<p>When the ResOrg application is started it will, by default, check whether 
Visual Studio is configured to load the add-in, and if necessary re-configure 
it to do so.</p>
<p>If the ResOrg application is not configured to do this (or unable to for 
any reason), you will need to do the following to use the Add-In version:
<ol>
    <li>Start Visual C++, and Select the &quot;Customize&quot; command on the 
    &quot;<b>Tools</b>&quot; Menu 
    <li>Select the &quot;<b>Add-ins and Macro Files</b>&quot; tab on the &quot;<b>Customize</b>&quot; 
    property sheet 
    <li>If the &quot;<b>Resource ID Organiser</b>&quot; entry appears in the 
    &quot;<b>Add-ins and macro files</b>&quot; control, make sure the check 
    box next to it is ticked 
    <li>Otherwise, press the &quot;<b>Browse</b>&quot; button and navigate to 
    the directory the files were installed in. Select the file &quot;<b>ResOrgAddIn.dll</b>&quot;, 
    press &quot;<b>OK</b>&quot; and when the entry appears in the control, check 
    the box next to it. 
</ol>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<h3 align="left">System Dependencies</h3>
<p align="left">In order to function correctly, ResOrg may require several system 
DLLs to be installed:
<ul type="disc">
    <li>ComCtl32.dll version 5.80 
    <li>Shlwapi.dll version 4.71 
    <li>Mfc42.dll version 6.00.8665.0 
    <li>Msvrt.dll version 6.00.8797.0 
</ul>
<p>Appropriate versions of Mfc42.dll and Msvcrt.dll are included in the ResOrg 
installer. Although these are system components, and thus cannot be installed 
by the installer on a platform which has System File Protection, the Windows 
platforms which have this capability (Windows Me and 2000 at the time of writing) 
have appropriate versions installed already.</p>
<p><b>ComCtl32.dll </b>must be installed via a Microsoft supplied installer 
(50comupd.exe) which is available from the ResOrg website if you need it. ResOrg 
will check the version of comctl32.dll upon start-up, and inform you if an update 
is necessary.</p>
<p>An appropriate version of <b>Shlwapi.dll</b> is included with Windows 98, 
NT 4.0 or later versions of Windows. If ResOrg is to be installed on a Windows 
95 system which does not have this file, it can be installed by installing Internet 
Explorer 4 or later.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you have any problems, bug reports or suggestions, please email them to 
us (<a href="mailto:support@riverblade.co.uk">support@riverblade.co.uk</a>). 
We will endeavour to provide bug fixes and other support as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>Since we try to produce updates as often as we reasonably can, please visit 
the ResOrg website (<a href="http://www.riverblade.co.uk/products/resorg">http://www.riverblade.co.uk/products/resorg</a>) 
for the latest information before contacting us with a bug report. You may find 
that the bug you're about to report has already been fixed!</p>
<p>Finally, we hope you find ResOrg useful. Some days, we wonder how we ever 
managed without it...</p>
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Written By
Founder Riverblade Limited
United Kingdom United Kingdom
I haven't always written software for a living. When I graduated from Surrey University in 1989, it was with an Electronic Engineering degree, but unfortunately that never really gave me the opportunity to do anything particularly interesting (with the possible exception of designing Darth Vader's Codpiece * for the UK Army in 1990).
    * Also known as the Standard Army Bootswitch. But that's another story...
Since the opportunity arose to lead a software team developing C++ software for Avionic Test Systems in 1996, I've not looked back. More recently I've been involved in the development of subsea acoustic navigation systems, digital TV broadcast systems, port security/tracking systems, and most recently software development tools with my own company, Riverblade Ltd.

One of my personal specialities is IDE plug-in development. ResOrg was my first attempt at a plug-in, but my day to day work is with Visual Lint, an interactive code analysis tool environment with works within the Visual Studio and Eclipse IDEs or on build servers.

I love lots of things, but particularly music, photography and anything connected with history or engineering. I despise ignorant, intolerant and obstructive people - and it shows...I can be a bolshy cow if you wind me up the wrong way...Laugh | :laugh:

I'm currently based 15 minutes walk from the beach in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. Since I moved here I've grown to love the place - even if it is full of grockles in Summer!

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