Resource Refactoring Tool 2010

Great tool. Will it be available in VS2012 version ?
Thanx

It definitely will. As soon as I will have time. And that should be soon, because I'm already using VS2012 and I miss this tool.

Any development on this? I am eagely waiting to use this in VS2012. Thanks.

I want to use it too in VS2012

Thanks for this great tool. But where is the VS2012 version? I really would appreciate this! Thanks anyway.

I'm very pleased with the Refactoring tool - I use it with C# in VS2010. Thanks to the developer(s). :-D

I have 2 questions:

1) I'm now looking for a tool to remove dead/orphaned resource entities in the many resx files in my projects. I'm about to initiate translation of a number of projects and would like to clean the resx files for unused resources to reduce the translation cost. I'm very interested in information on existing tools to carry out this task, or help to how I myself can implement a tool doing the task.

2) I'm looking into which translation system is the best for me. Currently I'm using RC-WinTrans (version 9) and have succedded with this system, but not without frustration and a lot of tedious/manual work. Translating from en-US to a number of very different languages with language dependant form-sizes and such requires some insight/hardcore knowledge which would be nice to have a system manage.
Any suggestion as to which system to use for managing translation of a medium sized set of projects, including translation memory and such would be VERY appreachiated.

Best Regards
Jan Jochimsen
Seven Technologies / Schneider Electric

Hello all.
As it is written in your documentation, putting entries in local resource file requires it's build action to be set as "Embedded Resource". It is not convenient for me, I want to keep it set to "Content". However if I do this, the resx file does not display in a list of available files to write to in the tool. Is there anything that can be done with this?
Regards

Does the extension support Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.x projects?

I have no experience with WP7 or SL. If the platforms support RESX files (which I'm not sure about) the tool should work for them.
Since both these platforms are dead, so if there is any bus related to it, I'm not gonna fix it (but feel free to contribute fix on CodePlex :-) - http://resourcerefactor2010.codeplex.com/).

...same problem as "dheijl" in the Rewiews:
Export works, but nothing gets replaced.
Any solution?

Hi,

I had the same issue and found a bug in the changes that were made in this version to get support for xaml. this had a side effect on c# code. to fix this, replace the line 419 of BaseHardCodedString.cs:

                if (!reference.Equals(ns.NamespaceName) && reference.StartsWith(ns + ".") && ns.NamespaceName.Length > longestMatch.NamespaceName.Length)

by

                if (!reference.Equals(ns.NamespaceName) && reference.StartsWith(ns + ".") && (longestMatch==null || ns.NamespaceName.Length > longestMatch.NamespaceName.Length))

longestMatch can be null at the beginning, which caused both preview and replace to not work

Thanks for the fix, Dethol.  I'm going to submit your fix as an issue on codeplex.

it looks like this still isn't fixed?  aw maaaaaaaaaaaan!  I was using this every day, and after rebuilding my machine, this version doesn't work anymore...

I've built a patch for this issue (31483).  It also includes some enhancements/fixes to the UI which I wanted:
http://resourcerefactor2010.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/patches

Hi! 

Congratulations to this great VS extension! 

I've got two feature requests:
- Provide an option to add new resource token to all culture-specific resource files with initial text
- Possibility to provide a template for XAML as sometimes wrappers are used (http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/08/26/silverlight-string-localization.aspx)

Regards
Holger

Donny can you upload the VSIX file directly to Visual Studio Gallery? That way the tool can be installed directly from inside Visual Studio 2010.

Thanks!
Steven

I'll take a look what does it mean for setup process to create VSIX package...

Hey this looks like a great tool. XAML support needed urgently! Could you implement that?
Seeing as, in a WPF or Silverlight application, no-one wants to set all the strings in code.

It would be greatly appreciated.
Or, if its not too hard, I could contribute that myself...

According to this page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd393694(VS.100).aspx Add-Ins cannot be installed using VSIX.
In case you have an idea how to deploy this project via VSIX contact me. You can download source code from http://dzonny.cz/Portals/0/SW/ResourceRefactor.src.rar.

Hi Donny,

Thanks for porting this to VS 2010. I was one of the developers who worked on this tool originally, it is nice to see there is active interest on this still. 

I was actually also working on rewriting some parts of it for VS 2010 so that instead of an add-in it worked as an editor extension. This would also mean that it can be deployed with VSIX now. Hopefully I will be able to release it very soon. 

I'd like to see original tool on CodePlex updated. Once there's a new "official" version this my version can be replaced by it.

XAML support is finallly here.

Hi support for XAML makes usage of some xaml tags not supported by Silverlight. I made some changes to implement a replacement string that is compatible with silverlight projects. If some interested, just contact me

This didn't seem to work for me in razor.  The context menu doesn't have the context menu and the Refactor menu option just produces an error "This project or file is not supported for resource refactoring. (HTML)"

I'm not surprised. This only works for supported file types. To be honnest I have never seen any .cshtml file myself :-(. If the Razor plugin is implemented in some nice way chances are that it'd be easy to add support for it.
Feel free to download source code from here: http://dzonny.cz/Software/Blog/tabid/93/EntryID/43/language/cs-CZ/Default.aspx and contribute Razor support :-).

Hi

Great tool. Only gripe I have is that the preview changes dialog does not preview all the lines that will change. The dialog disappears when I choose a file from the treeview. This is a bit of an irritation when you'd like to preview all changes across multiple files in your solution/project.

I'm using VS2010 on Win 7 (x64)

Thanks

I have VS2010 and VS2008 installed on the same machine. While this addin works just fine in VS2010, VS2008 gives me the following error when it tries to load the addin (version 2.1):

The Add-in 'Resource Refactoring Tool' failed to load or caused an exception.
Would you like to remove this Add-in?
If you choose yes, the file it was loaded from, 'C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins\ResourceRefactor.AddIn', will be renamed.

Error Message: <Unknown Error>
Error number: 8013101b

Maybe the reason is that it was compiled against .NET Framework 4.0?