Where Are We?

Visual Studio and the .NET Framework SDK provide a number of utilities for manipulating resources. Currently, they are limited to supporting file-based solutions (e.g., .resx, .resources, .txt, and .restext), and some solutionsnotably, Visual Studio's Resource Editorare aimed solely at resx files. In addition, these tools manage individual resources one at a time, which leads to a situation in which it is easy for developers to get resources out of synch with related resources. Furthermore, the effort of maintaining an up-to-date translation of resources, especially a pseudo translation, often makes this approach prohibitive. Resource Administrator solves these problems, makes the administration of resources simpler, and enables you to change resource formats more easily by allowing you to export resources in one format to resources in another format. The Add Resource String Add-In makes adding resource entries and keeping related resources in synch simpler. Finally, the resource governor architecture enables you to create new resource utilities that are format-agnostic, and to extend the Resource Administrator and Add Resource String Add-In to support new formats.