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bertanaygun — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:06:58 GMT

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

06/03/2010 It's been a long while since there had been any updates to tool. I am planning to start working on it again and the first thing I am doing is converting the power toy to be an editor extension in Visual Studio 2010 instead of an add-in that requires a separate setup. I will keep updating this page as I have the new version ready, afterwards I will try to add some of the changes that were suggested. - Bertan Aygun

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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactor.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource. If you don't see the menu item and you had a previous version of Resource Refactoring Tool installed before, you may have to reset the addin by running Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt with the following arguments: devenv.exe /resetaddin Microsoft.VSPowerToys.ResourceRefactor.Connect. This should fix the missing menu items.
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Note that by posting your submission to the Issue Tracker, you agree to do so under the CodePlex TOU

Join the Community

There are numerous ways you can participate in the Resource Refactoring Tool community

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the discussions tab
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

Updated Wiki: Home

bertanaygun — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:06:50 GMT

News Feeds

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

06/03/2010 It's been a long while since there had been any updates to tool. I am planning to start working on it again and the first thing I am doing is converting the power toy to be an editor extension in Visual Studio 2010 instead of an add-in that requires a separate setup. I will keep updating this page as I have the new version ready, afterwards I will try to add some of the changes that were suggested.

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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactor.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource. If you don't see the menu item and you had a previous version of Resource Refactoring Tool installed before, you may have to reset the addin by running Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt with the following arguments: devenv.exe /resetaddin Microsoft.VSPowerToys.ResourceRefactor.Connect. This should fix the missing menu items.
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the discussions tab
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

Updated Wiki: Home

bertanaygun — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:01:51 GMT

News Feeds

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactor.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource. If you don't see the menu item and you had a previous version of Resource Refactoring Tool installed before, you may have to reset the addin by running Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt with the following arguments: devenv.exe /resetaddin Microsoft.VSPowerToys.ResourceRefactor.Connect. This should fix the missing menu items.
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the discussions tab
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

bertanaygun — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:43:09 GMT

Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

Since changset 29126, solution and project files are updated to use Visual Studio 2008.
Install the following development tools

Read Resource Refactoring Tool Specification Document, Design Document and Test Plan which contains information about the project structure.
Download the latest source code

Steps for Building

If you wish to contribute changes to the project, you must build the Debug-Test, FxCop-Release and Release configurations. You will need to use the tools and procedures described below to build those configurations:

Step 1
Download the latest sources on the Source Code page

Step 2
Open the ResourceRefactor.Settings.targets file. This file is located in the solution directory.

You will find the following tags for each of the tools listed above:
<FxCopExtDir> </FxCopExtDir>
<NUnitDir> </NUnitDir>
<WiXDir> </WiXDir>

Step 3
Set these properties to the tools' installation directories. Be sure to include a trailing slash in each path.
For example:
<WiXDir>C:\tools\WiX\2.0.3719\</WiXDir>

Step 4
Close and reopen the solution, when inside the VS IDE, to pick up the new tool locations.

Step 5
Build.

Once solution is successfully built using "Release" build, MSI package will be placed under "Installer" directory.

Steps for Running Verification Scripts

Project contains scripts for building and testing modifications to the source code. You can find these scripts under the Verification Scripts folder.

To perform a build, run the following from the command prompt

build.cmd [clean  rebuild] [debug  release  Debug-Test  FxCop-Release]

clean and rebuild are the build types
debug, release, fxcop-release, and debug-test are the different build configurations.

Release build configuration builds Resource Refactoring Tool and also creates an MSI installer.
The FxCop configurations build Resource Refactoring Tool and then run FxCop on its assemblies.

To run a test pass, run the following from the command prompt

runtests.cmd

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:28:59 GMT

News Feeds

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactor.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource. If you don't see the menu item and you had a previous version of Resource Refactoring Tool installed before, you may have to reset the addin by running Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt with the following arguments: devenv.exe /resetaddin Microsoft.VSPowerToys.ResourceRefactor.Connect. This should fix the missing menu items.
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

bertanaygun — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:07:25 GMT

Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

Install the following development tools

Read Resource Refactoring Tool Specification Document, Design Document and Test Plan which contains information about the project structure.
Download the latest source code

Steps for Building

Steps for Running Verification Scripts

build.cmd [clean  rebuild] [debug  release  Debug-Test  FxCop-Release]

clean and rebuild are the build types
debug, release, fxcop-release, and debug-test are the different build configurations.

Release build configuration builds Resource Refactoring Tool and also creates an MSI installer.
The FxCop configurations build Resource Refactoring Tool and then run FxCop on its assemblies.

To run a test pass, run the following from the command prompt

runtests.cmd

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:42:51 GMT

News Feeds

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactor.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource. If you don't see the menu item and you had a previous version of Resource Refactoring Tool installed before, you may have to reset the addin by running Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt with the following arguments: devenv.exe /resetaddin Microsoft.VSPowerToys.ResourceRefactor.Connect. This should fix the missing menu items.
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

bertanaygun — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:34:43 GMT

Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

Install the following development tools

Read Resource Refactoring Tool Specification Document and Design Document which contains information about the project structure.
Download the latest source code

Steps for Building

Steps for Running Verification Scripts

build.cmd [clean  rebuild] [debug  release  Debug-Test  FxCop-Release]

clean and rebuild are the build types
debug, release, fxcop-release, and debug-test are the different build configurations.

Release build configuration builds Resource Refactoring Tool and also creates an MSI installer.
The FxCop configurations build Resource Refactoring Tool and then run FxCop on its assemblies.

To run a test pass, run the following from the command prompt

runtests.cmd

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:58:26 GMT

News Feeds

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Beta Release

Works with C#, VB.Net and Web 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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactor.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource. If you don't see the menu item and you had a previous version of Resource Refactoring Tool installed before, you may have to reset the addin by running Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt with the following arguments: devenv.exe /resetaddin Microsoft.VSPowerToys.ResourceRefactor.Connect. This should fix the missing menu items.
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:58:13 GMT

News Feeds

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Beta Release

Works with C#, VB.Net and Web 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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactor.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:03:28 GMT

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Beta Release

Works with C#, VB.Net and Web 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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactoringTool.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:38:35 GMT

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Beta Release

Works with C#, VB.Net and Web 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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactoringTool.msi to install
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:35:43 GMT

Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

Install the following development tools

Read Resource Refactoring Tool Specification Document and Design Document which contains information about the project structure.
Download the latest source code

Steps for Building

Steps for Running Verification Scripts

build.cmd [clean  rebuild] [debug  release  Debug-Test  FxCop-Release]

clean and rebuild are the build types
debug, release, fxcop-release, and debug-test are the different build configurations.

Release build configuration builds Resource Refactoring Tool and also creates an MSI installer.
The FxCop configurations build Resource Refactoring Tool and then run FxCop on its assemblies.

To run a test pass, run the following from the command prompt

runtests.cmd

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:11:57 GMT

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Beta Release

Works with C#, VB.Net and Web 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.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactoringTool.msi to install
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:54:47 GMT

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Alpha Release

Works with both C# and VB.Net projects.
A preview window to show changes in the tool window.
Lists existing resources by their similarity level to the text being replaced.
Automatically replaces hard coded string with a reference to resource entry.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactoringTool.msi to install
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Reading Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:54:14 GMT

Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

Install the following development tools

Read Resource Refactoring Tool Design Document which contains information about the project structure.
Download the latest source code

Steps for Building

Steps for Running Verification Scripts

build.cmd [clean  rebuild] [debug  release  Debug-Test  FxCop-Release]

clean and rebuild are the build types
debug, release, fxcop-release, and debug-test are the different build configurations.

Release build configuration builds Resource Refactoring Tool and also creates an MSI installer.
The FxCop configurations build Resource Refactoring Tool and then run FxCop on its assemblies.

To run a test pass, run the following from the command prompt

runtests.cmd

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:45:12 GMT

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Alpha Release

Works with both C# and VB.Net projects.
A preview window to show changes in the tool window.
Lists existing resources by their similarity level to the text being replaced.
Automatically replaces hard coded string with a reference to resource entry.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactoringTool.msi to install
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at issue tracker.

Feel free to contribute by

Read Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development.
Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Project_Assignment_Agreement.TIF form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

CREATED WIKI: Getting Started with Resource Refactoring Tool Development

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:45:12 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:32:10 GMT

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Alpha Release

Works with both C# and VB.Net projects.
A preview window to show changes in the tool window.
Lists existing resources by their similarity level to the text being replaced.
Automatically replaces hard coded string with a reference to resource entry.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactoringTool.msi to install
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Contributing to Resource Refactoring Tool

We're looking for developers to join us in future releases. Check out the current work items at Cannot resolve link: [release:109].

Feel free to contribute by

Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Cannot resolve link: [file:Project Assignment Agreement.TIF] form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Note that by posting your submission to the Issue Tracker, you agree to do so under the CodePlex TOU

Join the Community

There are numerous ways you can participate in the VSCmdShell community

Blog about Resource Refactoring Tool
Ask and answer questions regarding Resource Refactoring Tool on the forums
Submit issues or feature suggestions
Fix bugs or check in new features - see above section

UPDATED WIKI: Home

bertanaygun — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:31:16 GMT

Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool Alpha Release

Works with both C# and VB.Net projects.
A preview window to show changes in the tool window.
Lists existing resources by their similarity level to the text being replaced.
Automatically replaces hard coded string with a reference to resource entry.

Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool

Run ResourceRefactoringTool.msi to install
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.

Either creating new or finding existing bugs or feature requests you want to work on
Leave a note in the comments that you're going to investigate this bug (until you have developer rights, you won't be able to assign bugs to yourself)
Download the latest sources and create a bug fix
Zip up your changes and post them as an attachment to the work item
Fill out the Cannot resolve link: [file:Project Assignment Agreement.TIF] form and follow the Assignment Agreement Instructions to send it to us.

Note that by posting your submission to the Issue Tracker, you agree to do so under the CodePlex TOU