Proper localization of a WinForms application

Question

I have a WinForms application which I want to translate into multiple languages. However, I do not have any experience with localizing a WinForms a

Answer 1

What you are asking for:

1. no satellite resource files
2. only one size and control placement per form.
3. lots of languages embedded in the executable.

Is not do-able in vanilla Visual Studio's IDE.

What it would require is some custom work, basically fulfilling all these steps:

• Acquire a custom resource manager that handles TMX resource files.
• Put all your localizable strings in a TMX file.
• • Make this TMX file an embedded resource in your project.
• In your Form constructor, create your TMX ResourceManager, loading the TMX file from your embedded resources.
• In your code, use your tmx ResourceManager instead of the default ResourceManager for getting localized strings.
• • Let the Form use the default ResourceManager for getting all the designer things except the strings.
• Get your TMX file fleshed out with the new language translations.
• • More can be added in the next release of your project, just by adding them to this TMX file before you compile.

RESOURCES: (not an exhaustive list, by any means)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_Memory_eXchange
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmx-editor/