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Tools for searching string literals in an application

Are there any tools for locating all the strings that I've to Internationalize? My app is already "partially" designed for Internationalization support. However I want to make sure that there arent' any hardcoded string within my app.

Regular expression search didn't help a lot as trying to find "***" returns every aspx page.

Are there any tools to do this?

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John Kugelman  2009-07-03 06:23:56
You need to make use of the [Localizable] attribute on your properties to get the best out of FxCop.
Mark Heath  2009-07-03 06:29:48
I don't see the "Do not pass literals as localized parameters" option in FxCop. Moreover, how can I use this on a ASP.NET project?
Mugunth Kumar  2009-07-03 07:12:14
@Mugunth: Web Application Project or Web Site Project (former created through new project, latter through new web site). For a Web Application Project FXCop is available in project settings under Code Analysis.
Richard  2009-07-03 09:29:11
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Netbeans and Eclipse support this out of the box. I think it is even enabled by default. I don't know about Visual Studio, but I'd expect that it offers such functionality.

In eclipse and with java it works like this: Whenever the integrated compiler sees a string literal it issues a warning unless the string literal is marked with a //$NON-NLS-1$ comment.

In Netbeans it is mostly the same but you mark non-translatable string literals (regexes, SQL, ...) with NOI18N.

bbuser  2009-07-03 06:30:44

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