Thursday, November 29, 2007

Resource Refactoring Tool v1.0 Updated to Support VS2008

CodePlex - Resource Refactoring Tool

"Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files.

02/13/2007 We just released Resource Refactoring Tool 1.0. You can download it from releases section.
10/28/2007 Resource Refactoring Tool 1.0 release is updated to support Visual Studio 2008 as well.

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool

  • Works with C#, VB.Net languages. Supports all project types that ships with Visual Studio 2005 including web sites and web application projects.
  • A preview window to show changes.
  • Finds other instances of the text being replaced in the project automatically.
  • Lists existing resources by their similarity level to the text being replaced.
  • Automatically replaces hard coded string with a reference to resource entry.

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Make sure you check out the screenshots as they say it all (thousand words and all that)...

 

Related Past Post XRef:
Resource Refactoring Tool v1.0 Released
Resource Refactoring Tool Powertoy for VS2005 (Refactor Strings into a String Resource)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does not install in VS 2008!

Greg said...

It did for me...

After seeing your comment, I downloaded it, installed it and I now have a Refactor menu and an Extract to Resource item in VS2008.

Giving it a very quick try, it worked the first time.