[Cool Tool] VS Resource Refactoring Tool

The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them.

Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files. It works with C# and VB.Net in all project types that ships with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.

After installed, in code editor just click a string and select Refactor / Extract to Resource.

A preview window shows changes, finds other instances of the text being replaced in the project, list existing similar resource items to avoid duplicate entries and automatically replaces hard coded string with a reference to the new resource item, nice!

 

Resource Refactoring Tool Download link:
http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionId=6ebe98b6-c344-4929-857c-6afebf51f4af

Published Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:46 PM by pluginbaby
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Comments

Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:23 PM by Uwe

# re: [Cool Tool] VS Resource Refactoring Tool

Personally, I do prefer this one: http://www.safedevelop.com

Actually it is a plug-in for the ReSharper plug-in.

Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:25 PM by Uwe

# re: [Cool Tool] VS Resource Refactoring Tool

Oh, if I may do some self-advertising:

After extracting the resources, I translate them side-by-side with my small tool Zeta Resource Editor:

www.codeproject.com/.../ZetaResourceEditor.aspx

Sunday, March 02, 2008 5:31 PM by pluginbaby

# re: [Cool Tool] VS Resource Refactoring Tool

@Uwe: Awesome!

Monday, March 03, 2008 10:26 AM by Laurent Duveau

# [Cool Tool] Zeta Resource Editor

Following my Resource Refactoring Tool post, Uwe pointed me to Zeta Resource Editor . This very nice

Monday, March 03, 2008 10:51 PM by Laurent Duveau

# [Cool Tool] Zeta Resource Editor

Following my Resource Refactoring Tool post, Uwe pointed me to Zeta Resource Editor . This very nice