Writing Your Own RTF Converter

// -- FILE ------------------------------------------------------------------
// name       : StringsBase.cs
// project    : System Framelet
// created    : Jani Giannoudis - 2009.02.19
// language   : c#
// environment: .NET 3.5
// copyright  : (c) 2004-2013 by Jani Giannoudis, Switzerland
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
using System;
using System.Resources;

namespace Itenso.Sys
{

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	/// <summary>
	/// Provides some helper functionality to keep resource handling in a
	/// namespace as simple and uniform as possible.
	/// </summary>
	/// <remarks>
	/// intended to be used by a singleton class per namespace, which should
	/// commonly be named <c>Strings</c>. This singleton instance should
	/// provide access to resources via strongly typed properties, thus
	/// avoiding coding errors with misspelled resource identifiers.
	/// </remarks>
	public abstract class StringsBase
	{

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Formats the given format-string with the invariant culture and the
		/// given arguments.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="format">the string to format</param>
		/// <param name="args">the arguments to fill in</param>
		/// <returns>the formatted string</returns>
		protected static string Format( string format, params object[] args )
		{
			return StringTool.FormatSafeInvariant( format, args );
		} // Format

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Creates a <c>ResourceManager</c> instance for the given type, loading its resources
		/// from the type's full name, suffixed with '<c>.resx</c>'.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="singletonType">the type of the singleton</param>
		/// <returns>a <c>ResourceManager</c> for loading the given type's resources</returns>
		protected static ResourceManager NewInst( Type singletonType )
		{
			if ( singletonType == null )
			{
				throw new ArgumentNullException( "singletonType" );
			}
			if ( String.IsNullOrEmpty( singletonType.FullName ) )
			{
				throw new ArgumentException( "singletonType" );
			}
			return new ResourceManager( singletonType.FullName, singletonType.Assembly );
		} // NewInst

	} // class StringsBase

} // namespace Itenso.Sys
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