Resource Refactoring Tool

Reviewed: 1.0 Production (май 29, 2009)

1zzy — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:33:10 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - cool, very usefull tool

New Post: Support in Vs2008 ?

PowerKiKi — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:28:02 GMT

That may make no sense at all, but I downloaded source code, compiled and ran it. For the the debug session (via F5), I launched a second Visual Studio who had the menu. Since then the menu always appears in Visual Studio 2008. Don't ask me why, but probably worth a shot.

New Post: Support in Vs2008 ?

ajmastrean — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:16:04 GMT

I have fixed the backslash, confirmed the add-in search directory, and played with the <Assembly> "src" attribute. Nothing is working for VS 2008 still.

Created Issue: String with an apostrophe

yvijayakumar — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:55:09 GMT

String with an apostrophe not refactoring.

Reviewed: 1.0 Production (May 04, 2009)

npiaseck — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:32:57 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - This is great. Simple, works, should be built-in!

New Post: localize string

nuk — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:33:07 GMT

I am searching a tool or extension for the resource refactoring tool that can automatically localize all strings in a quite big solution with a lot of projects for VS 2005. Is there something like this?

Thanks

Reviewed: 1.0 Production (Mar 24, 2009)

juerisnai — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:53:30 GMT

Rated 4 Stars (out of 5) - Very very efficient solution

Reviewed: 1.0 Production (Mar 24, 2009)

juerisnai — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:53:27 GMT

Rated 4 Stars (out of 5) - Very very efficient solution

Commented Issue: Does Not Install on Visual Studio 2008

PowerKiKi — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:46:30 GMT

When both Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 are installed, the Resource Refactoring Tool is not installed on Visual Studio 2008.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: PowerKiKi **

Somehow I managed to get the missing menu in Visual Studio 2008. Unfortunately I couldn't exactly what I did, but here is a list of what I did lately that may have an impact:

* used various utilities (especially TuneUp and CCleaner) to clean up my computer, including registry
* deleted %WINDIR%\$NtUninstallKB*$ folders
* installed Windows Installer Cleanup Utility and ran the command "C:\Program Files\Windows Installer Clean Up\MsiZap.exe G" !!!WARNING, that may corrupt your machine, read documentation WARNING!!!
* reboot
* checkout Resource Refactoring source code, open solution, modify Addins project property -> Debug -> select path to devenv.exe 9.0, build, and execute, then I had it !

Honestly I couldn't tell what fixed my install. It seems that building the source code was not enough as we tried on another computer and it didn't get the menu... Hope this may help anyway

Commented Issue: Request: Extraction of concatenated strings.

uKER — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:24:27 GMT

My suggestion is that it should be possible to highlight a series of concatenated string values and extract them as a whole.
As it works today, if you have a string spanning two lines of code, such as:

string = "This is the first line of my string constant " + _
"and this is the second one."

you can't extract them to a single string resource.

A big disadvantage of this is that it makes it impossible to extract to resources any string that contains newlines in VB.Net, as newlines can't be embedded into strings as they can in C#, but they have to be concatenated (be it as Environment.NewLine, vbCrLf, Chr(10), etc).
Comments: ** Comment from web user: uKER **

Also, on a related note, expressions such as:

MyString = "Today is " + VarDate + " and the time is " + VarTime + ".";

could perhaps be recognized as a full string and get refactored to

MyString = String.Format(Resources.MyString, new object[] {VarDate, VarTime});

Created Issue: Request: Extraction of concatenated strings.

uKER — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:40:26 GMT

New Post: Refactor a whole solution

PowerKiKi — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:02:31 GMT

Thanks, your explanation made it quite clear indeed. I still see a "danger" in using the bare resource ID, but I understand your point with logging messages.

Could you get in touch with Resource Refactoring Tool's developers to submit your improvement ?

New Post: Refactor a whole solution

galosh — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:16:31 GMT

I keep the old behavior of ResourceRefactor.

The modification with the string IDs is done because of multilanguage support I have to make.
Suppose you have a solution with 2 projects: ProjSrc and ProjFoo and a string inside a source file in ProjSrc should be refactored.
You can choose the destination resource to be either in ProjSrc or in ProjFoo:

I. If you choose to add the string to a resource in ProjSrc, you have 2 options:

The current ResourceRefactor behavior (replacement with a generated property).
Replacement of the string with its resource ID - very handy if you need to store logging messages that later will be translated.

II. If you choose to add the string to a resource in ProjFoo, you can replace the string only with its string ID, because ProjSrc will not have the resource (and respectively - will not have the corresponding property).

The benefit of this modification is that it allows only one project inside the whole solution to store all localizable strings.

I don't quite understand you about providing a sample. Do you mean to give you the binaries?

New Post: Refactor a whole solution

PowerKiKi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:18:27 GMT

It sounds like you're using either a string or an int as ID for your resources. It would be better to keep the concept of Resource Designer with its strong typed, compiling time checked resources, wouldn't it ? That means you would have a unique public Resource Designer in your resources project.

I am not sure I made myself clear though... Out of curiosity, if you could provide a sample that would be much appreciated.

New Post: Refactor a whole solution

galosh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:06:03 GMT

In the company I work we have a big solution with many projects inside it.
We wanted one assembly, i.e. one project, to have a resource that contains all log strings in the solution.

I extended the ResourceRefactor plugin in order to support such functionality.
If you are interested, I can give you the source. The project is for VS 2008 only.

The modified version of the plugin has two "Replace string as" options:
As a property (the same as now)
As a string ID (a new option allowing projects that do not refer the resource "Designer.*" file to use it).

Commented Issue: Does Not Install on Visual Studio 2008

PowerKiKi — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:35:42 GMT

When both Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 are installed, the Resource Refactoring Tool is not installed on Visual Studio 2008.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: PowerKiKi **

Oh, forgot to mention, I tried the deven.ex /setup trick with no luck :(

Commented Issue: Does Not Install on Visual Studio 2008

PowerKiKi — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:28:09 GMT

When both Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 are installed, the Resource Refactoring Tool is not installed on Visual Studio 2008.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: PowerKiKi **

Same problem over here. What I did:

1. open %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins\ResourceRefactor.AddIn
2. remove <HostApplication> tag for VS2005 and change the description
3. load Visual Studio 2008
4. menu not available, but AddIns manager shows modified description
5. ProcessExplorer shows devenv.exe with handles C:\Program Files\Power Toys for Visual Studio\Resource Refactoring Tool\ResourceRefactor.Common.CSharp.dll and C:\Program Files\Power Toys for Visual Studio\Resource Refactoring Tool\Microsoft.VSPowerToys.ResourceRefactor.dll
6. load Visual Studio 2005
7. menu available (!!)

Previously I uninstalled and re-install ResourceRefactoring from this kink: http://www.codeplex.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=ResourceRefactoring&DownloadId=6846

Anybody found workaround ?

New Post: Support in Vs2008 ?

PowerKiKi — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:57:40 GMT

I have same problem.

Visual Studio 2005 + 2008 installed. I'm pretty sure it worked once (when I installed) but it won't show up in context menu anymore. I tried to fix '\\' issue, 'src="file"' and added path as raubam suggested (full path). But it didn't help. Any ideas what to do next ?

I also have GhostDoc and TestDriven.Net (disabled) installed. My profile path is c:\winnt\profiles\my_user_name\ if that matters ...

Commented Issue: Create new resource file problem

capmusic — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:06:24 GMT

I started with a console application with no resource file.
RRT created file that I named Resources.resx. It created it outside the Properties branch of the project.
I moved it to the Properties branch.
Now RRT is out of sync. When it adds a new string it does not end up in my resource file. If I delete an entry in my resource file, RRT does not reflect the change.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: capmusic **

I restarted VS2008 and it seems to be OK now

Created Issue: Create new resource file problem

capmusic — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:59:59 GMT