WinForms strings in resource files, wired up in designer

Question

I\'m trying to localise a WinForms app for multiple languages. I\'m trying to find a way to set my form labels/buttons text properties to read from the resources file in the des

Answer 1

I have just been looking at this very thing.
If you own the control, ie it is your own custom control, you can use CodeDOM

Read this article for some background and download this example to see how it's done.

In our app we need to replace placeholders with "DisplayText" form the database.
So we have Text properties like "Order {Product}" and we want to replace with GetDisplayText("Order {Product}")`.

So in order to do this I have added the following code:

                statements.OfType()
                    .Where(s => s.Left is CodePropertyReferenceExpression && ((CodePropertyReferenceExpression)s.Left).PropertyName == "Text")
                    .ToList().ForEach(s =>
                    {
                        s.Right = new CodeMethodInvokeExpression(
                            new CodeMethodReferenceExpression(new CodeTypeReferenceExpression("Core.DisplayText"), "GetDisplayText"),
                            s.Right);
                    });

However I am still experimenting with it and I haven't created a working solution yet... But it may help you.

:-)