Resources (resx) maintenance in big projects

Question

In a big project where you have lots of resources (resx) what would be the right approaches and/or tools of translation in order to save time, at the same time keep everythi

Answer 1

I personally find managing multiple ResX files very frustrating. In one of the projects we developed a tool which looked pretty much like this:

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It allowed to edit resources for all cultures in a single grid.

This particular application is available here (it's in Russian, sorry).

SVN repo is here, look for LocalizationUtil.

Answer 2

I wrote some about it in this answer:

Are resx files suitable for Internationalization?

Summary:

You should use a localization tool. It notices if a original text changes and if new texts are added, so you always know what you need to translate.

Note: a localization tool only manages translations, not the original language.