Localizing and Globalization of WinForms applications

Question

Hi,

We've developed a WinForms application (targeting .NET 2.0 with VS2008), we've just found out that we need to localize it for use in another language (other than english) :( What are the guidelines for developing multi-lingual languages in .NET?

Another application borrows Paint.NET's idea of globalization (using resources) but I was wondering if there are tools out there than can automate this for us - free would be nice but commercial is OK too.

Any ideas?

How do people normally work on projects that require multi-lingual interfaces? We're talking WiNForms apps. Do you just use IsLocalized = true and let .NET handle it?

Answer 1

You should create assemblies for each language. This article is a good point to start from.

To automate localization process you could use 3rd-party tools, like ResX Localization Studio.