Files
The add-in for Microsoft .NET can work on binary files and sources files used in the development environment.
The resource files of the development environment are saved in XML format. For these files there are name conventions which have to be kept in order to make the best use of Microsoft .NET's localization technology.
Before adding Microsoft .NET source files to your project, specify the target path rules for the relevant .NET file type (or copy the rules into the project), this is done in the Target Path Rules dialog.
The translated version of a resource file of the development environment is written in the same directory as the source file. A language ID for the target language will be added to the file name. The translations of binary files are saved in so-called satellite DLL's. These are stored in a subfolder relative to the source file. The name of the subfolder is based on the language ID. The satellite DLL has the same name as the source file. The file extension, however, is .RESOURCE.DLL. Further information can be found in the Microsoft .NET developers' documentation as well as in the book Internationalization and Localization using Microsoft .NET by Nick Symmonds, APRESS, ISBN 1-59059-002-3.