Comments on: Automatically translate Global and Local Resource (resx) files

By: Nazar Kotylo

Nazar Kotylo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:06:18 +0000

Awesome!
Sometimes resources can contain images. But the working folder is different so ResXResourceReader throws an exception when trying to read .resx file (GetEnumerator). This happens if you have relative links to the image files.

The solution to this is to set the current working directory as:

using (ResXResourceReader rr = new ResXResourceReader(resxFilePath))
{
string outputFilePath = String.Format("{0}.{1}.{2}", Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(resxFilePath), toLanguageShortname, Path.GetExtension(resxFilePath));
[b]System.Environment.CurrentDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(resxFilePath);[/b]

By: Martin H. Normark

Martin H. Normark — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:55:10 +0000

Hey Chad

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for your input.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:45:56 +0000

Nicely done Martin, that certainly makes things easier getting started with translations. I have one suggestion though…in the Translator class, set the proxy credentials on your web client. Many corporations use a proxy server to allow access to the Internet.

Just one line in the using statement of Translator.TranslateText:
[b]webClient.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;[/b]
and it’ll use the current Windows credentials to pass to the proxy.

Thanks and great job!

By: Martin Normark

Martin Normark — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:58:34 +0000

You can download the app, including source code, through the link to my Sky Drive. At the bottom of the post – ResxTranslator.zip

By: Cwe

Cwe — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:27:41 +0000

Hi, I thought the same idea too about generating resx files for different languages using Google Translate but not sure how. It will be very helpful if you can post up the source code about the windows app that you are working on