Threads Replies Last Post 12 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12   Why Name, Parent, Type, & ZOrder in the resx file? Why is it when we localize the text to a control in a form, in the (Default) resx it adds the Name, Parent, Type, & ZOrder property for each control. Why? And should we delete those settings or will VS 2008 need them. thanks - dave david@at-at-at@windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardr... 2 12/16/2008 12:56:20 AM US International Keyboard lost functionality Using Windows XP SP3 all current updates/drivers: I've had my keyboard set up as US International for many years now with no problems. Recently, within the past few days, I have noticed that the normal combined key combinations no longer work. For example, RIGHT ALT + key still results in the proper character (RALT+N = ñ) but I can no longer combine keystrokes to create accented charac... 2 11/24/2008 1:14:19 PM satellite assemblies in asp .net web applications I have a web application project that I'm trying to localize. I've translated all the resources, created the language resource files and then try to build satellite assemblies using resgen.exe and al.exe, but the assembly that is generated is never used by the application when I run it. if I leave the resx files in the web directory, it will appear in spanish, but putting the dll in th... 1 11/19/2008 6:04:10 PM What is the best way to handle localization? Hi; Ok, we now need to localize our Form app. We have the text in all the controls as well as text we set inside our code. What's the best approach? I just need big picture of which of the various ways we should do this. I've done it before but don't remember the trade-offs of the various approaches. The UI will keep evolving so we want an approach that easily handles new controls in ... 1 10/29/2008 4:14:37 PM setting Russian code page when installing Russia localized programmes on w2k UK-localised computer all the information which pops up during installation shows as ????? I guess I need to set the main code page (or how it is colled correctly) to Cyrillics - how do I do this. Also would you reming the name of the command to run at DOS prompt to see the current code page? ... 4 10/22/2008 4:55:01 AM using satellite assemblies Hi! I got a solution which contains many different projects. One of those is ASP.NET Web site which is using assemblies generated by compilation of other projects from this solution (i.e. library projects). In source code for one of the classes included in such assembly there's a method which I would like to implement to obtain resourceSet from a satellite library, which is created ... 1 6/26/2007 10:06:01 AM Multi-byte characters? If I create a new Win32 Console project (unmanaged C++, Visual Studio 2005), and add the following to the main program: // Add this above the main routine #include <windows.h> // Add this at the top of the file // Add this to the main routine MessageBox(NULL, "A", "B", MB_OK); The compiler (Visual Studio 2005) complains that it can't convert parameter 2 from 'const ch... 5 6/24/2007 4:27:05 PM Diabetic Recipes and More... Hi Cookers, Welcome to our new website, cookersworld.com. We have expanded the content links to ad Mr. Emeril Lagasse's fine recipes along with recipes for diabetic's. The website is full of great links from our partners. We have links to free cookbooks and more. Please stop by and support us. Visit all our links and choose the best recipe for you or your family. We look forward t... 1 6/24/2007 8:26:55 AM Switch language at runtime - best practice I have a desktop application that supports different languages via the mechanism provided by the .Net Framework. I can choose the language when starting the program or use the system language and all dialogs and windows are displayed in the correct language. It worked fine for now. But now i need to switch the language at runtime, lets say via a menu entry. What is the best approach for ... 5 6/20/2007 8:05:01 AM Constructor on type 'System.Windows.Forms.SplitterPanel' not found Hi there, I've used Winres.exe already a couple of times successfully. This time there is this error message: Error - Failed to load the resource due to the following error: System.MissingMethodException: Constructor on type 'System.Windows.Forms.SplitterPanel' not found. at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo cu... 1 6/20/2007 7:58:03 AM multilanguage application in one exe? I have a multilanguage application. Now it is compiled to one executable and satellite assemblies with translations. How do I pack all these resources into just one exe file that will contain resources for all the languages? BTW, I'm using VS2005. Optionally is it possible to set different default language so I can distribute my app with preset language and without satellite assemblies? ... 1 6/19/2007 11:09:30 AM Difficult internationalization problem to solve I am working on internationalizing legacy VB component which was ported out to VB.Net This code base is very old and it does something no body recommends in the data service component. Changing the way it works is not an option so no point discussing that here. The problem is SQL query is dynamically generated in the data service component by doing a simple string concatenation. ... 4 6/16/2007 7:14:01 AM Check languages available for application I have an application that for now supports just two languages. Later there will be more languages available. I need a way to check at runtime what languages are available. One quite time-consuming way would be to get all cultures and test for each one if it is available. That leads to the next problem. If this is the only way how do i do this with minimal cost of time. Every bit of he... 11 6/14/2007 5:14:21 PM WinRes not showing DataGridViewColumns I have a form with a single DataGridView which has 2 DataGridViewTextBoxColumns named "Column1" and "Column2". * In WinRes the grid is shown WITHOUT any columns * Clicking the AddColumns button opens the add column popup which defaults to a unbound new column name of "Column2" * The Type combo on this popup is empty * Clicking the Add button generates an excpetion handlign message box -... 1 6/14/2007 12:15:03 PM On-Screen keyboard and numeric keypad Hi, I have to develop an on-screen keyboard and on-screen numeric keypad for a touchscreen UI. The hardest thing with this is that it has to be multi-lingual. Has anybody have ideas how to handle the strange characters of some languages and how to handle the different number of characters in the alphabet of some languages? I've already started with the numeric keypad and I've change... 5 6/13/2007 6:30:05 PM decimal separator, regional settings Hello there! Here is my problem, in the simplest scenario: - an Access 2000 format database (created with Access 2003) - a simple table that contains one single field defined as Number, Decimal, 18,2 - VS2005 standard, C# - a data source / dataset that contains that simple Access table - a DataGridView, created by drag and drop, with all the helper objects (adapter, navigator etc) that... 2 6/9/2007 1:38:01 PM Display leading zeros cultural setting in .Net framework In the control panel applet for Regional and Language Options, under Regional Options, in the Customize... dialog, Numbers tab, there is an option for Display Leading Zeros. This is a setting related to a particular culture ( which encapsulates a locale ID ) in dotnet, and a particular locale ID in WIN32. This setting determines whether or not a leading zero should be displayed befor... 9 6/6/2007 8:43:23 AM Special Folder Names Hi all, my first post here. I'm using VC++ 2005 Express. How do I get the names of special folders on the local system? For example, if I want to get the desktop folder name on any version of windows I simply call GetFolderPath(Environment::SpecialFolder::desktop); I can get the array of folder names using array<String ^> ^ special_folders = gcnew array<String ^&g... 1 5/19/2007 9:54:03 AM forms looks different on different platform; limited things can change in OS theme Hi, I have a big urgent problem to solve. I used to use Windows 2000 Chinese version, now I installed Windows XP (English) system. The problem is not about 2000 or XP, it is about English and Chinese. All forms of my compiled C# desktop application, as well as in Visual Studio 2003(English) design view are looks different under two system. e.g. The text on a button are wrapped... 3 5/15/2007 10:48:50 PM Satellite Resource Assembly I have created a satellite resource assembly for an ASP.Net application. I used resgen and al to create a single spanish resource for the App_GlobalResources and App_LocalResources. I placed that assembly in the bin/es folder. When I load the web pages, the resources are reverting to the default language. I'm trying to figure out why. My initial guess would be that I need a separa... 1 5/2/2007 10:28:31 PM Problem with AL.exe Hello When i add new resource files to my usercontrol project and i compile the project a i get a error message in the event log Activation context generation failed for "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\AL.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="9.0.20129.4864" could not be found. Pl... 2 4/30/2007 4:46:00 AM Localization & Messaging Hi Everyone, I've been tasked with building a messaging service for a custom app that supports localization. Within the app itself people will be able to specify the languge of their choice and therefore can switch at run time. However, the UI layer will send the locale of choice to my component and then I must retreive and send standard messages based on this choice. Is there b... 1 4/26/2007 5:38:04 PM Detecting whether Chinese characters are installed I have a dropdown for language in my application. I use the CultureInfo.NativeName to display the language in the dropdown list (combo box) (CultureInfo is a .NET class) However, on a US English copy of Windows, if I do not have the East Asian fonts installed (via Control Panel), then the native name for Chinese is displayed as a series of square boxes. What I would like to do is to... 3 4/20/2007 7:02:06 PM Default language Hi. I am writing web and desktop applications that need internationalization and all of these applications will have a default language, say English. I know I have to create the different resources for each language, but do I need to create one for the English language too? Since it will be the default language, I am thinking of write the text directly on my labels, menus etc. and just loa... 3 4/20/2007 8:46:29 AM Win32 API with globalization Hi, Can anyone suggest on the behavior of Win32 API in different langauge OSs? For example, if I'm using a Win32 function like "GetClassName" in C#.NET application, how different will the string values returned by this function be? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.... 4 4/18/2007 9:01:24 PM 12 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12