Localize .NET assembly without source code

Question

Hey, I need to localize a .NET assembly (winforms exe), but I don't have its source code. Is there any good tool that allows this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

For analyzing it and finding out the way of accessing resources you might want to use Reflector. Depending on what you find out, you'll probably want to create resource files / satellite assemblies or localize it in a respective way.

Answer 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/578883/a-net-disassembler-decompiler

Answer 3

Found this: http://www.lingobit.com/solutions/dotnet/dotnet_localization.html

Lingobit Localizer uses binary localization to translate .NET application from one language to another. Lingobit extracts all localizable resources such as strings, menus and forms directly from assembly file (*.exe, *.dll).

Answer 4

My tool of choice was Passolo (not free) but it will only help you if your winform application is localizable (i.e. strings, layout... are stored in a resx file).