Localization of custom DLLs.

Hi.

I am developing a DLL that will be used by localizable applications.
The code of this DLL has some text that is send to the client
applications. I am creating some resource files for this DLL and when
I compile it, VS.NET creates a bunch of resource.dll files for the
project one for each language I need to support. So, when I distribute
this DLL to my developers, will I have to distribute those
resource.dll files as well? Is there any way to encapsulate all of
them inside a single dll?

Regards,
Robert Scheer

Mihai
Wed Mar 05 17:59:09 CST 2008

> So, when I distribute this DLL to my developers, will I have
> to distribute those resource.dll files as well?
Yes.

> Is there any way to encapsulate all of them inside a single dll?
Nope.

Unless you invent your own solution going around the resource manager.

But having separate resource-only dlls for each language is the
current best recomended practice.


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Robert
Thu Mar 06 21:25:01 CST 2008

On Mar 5, 8:59=A0pm, "Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > So, when I distribute this DLL to my developers, will I have
> > to distribute those resource.dll files as well?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is there any way to encapsulate all of them inside a single dll?
>
> Nope.
>
> Unless you invent your own solution going around the resource manager.
>
> But having separate resource-only dlls for each language is the
> current best recomended practice.
>
> --
> Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Windows - SDK]http://www.mihai-nita.net
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Hi Mihai.

So, if I support five languages, how should I deploy my DLL to my
client developers? If they need to put this DLL on the GAC, they will
have to run GACUtil.exe on each resource DLL also?

TIA,
Robert Scheer

Mihai
Thu Mar 06 22:09:21 CST 2008

> So, if I support five languages, how should I deploy my DLL to my
> client developers? If they need to put this DLL on the GAC, they will
> have to run GACUtil.exe on each resource DLL also?

Sorry, I don't know much about GAC deployment.
But I guess you can just give it a try.


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