Sean,

That’s an interesting idea. I’m not aware of anything like this. A couple of issues spring to mind. How are you expecting to receive translations from translators ? If you receive translations in bulk then you need to manage the issue that some new translations will have been added since they started their process and some old ones will have been deleted. If you receive them atomically then the translator is probably translating out of context and that makes for a poor translation.

Another issue is that you need to vet the translations. If a prankster deliberately mistranslates something you won’t know. Worse still you will publish it and be liable.

Certainly there are some issues to think about.

If you are simply after a quick and easy translation then use the machine translation facilities in the source code on http://www.dotneti18n.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dotneti18n.com" target="new">http://www.dotneti18n.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dotneti18n.com. Machine translation is not wholly accurate so don’t expect too much.

Guy

Hi, Sean,

Glad you found it useful. I’m not aware of any interim updates for ClickOnce before .NET 3. BITS was expected to be in the next ClickOnce but I haven’t checked that out yet.

As for resource editors: yes. Download the source code on http://www.dotneti18n.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dotneti18n.com" target="new">http://www.dotneti18n.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dotneti18n.com. This contains a stand alone resource editor. The stand alone resource editor is based on a Resource Editor Control which is also included in the source code. If you don’t like the pre-assembled stand alone resource editor you could use the Resource Editor Control to create your own. One point to note though: the source code assumes it accompanies the book so the explanations are in the book - not in the code.

Guy