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Using MAT for RESX to XLIFF conversion

alexgav edited this page Feb 19, 2018 · 21 revisions

How To Use Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) for RESX localization

Install MAT

The first step is to download and install MAT 4.0 from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MultilingualAppToolkit.MultilingualAppToolkit-18308 (or directly from Visual Studio by using Tools->Extensions and Updates.

Install from VS

Once MAT is installed, you will have a new menu item under your Tools menu - "Mutlilingual App Toolkit".

Mutlilingual App Toolkit Menu

You will use that menu to enable MAT in new projects. You should not need to use it unless you are adding a new project to LibMan (or starting a completely different product/project).

Enable MAT in your projects (already done for LibMan)

Prior to enabling MAT, you need

  1. Add Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs if it doesn't exist in your project already
  2. Add [assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage("en")] entry to the AssemblyInfo.cs

If you don't do that, you'll get Project 'Microsoft.Web.LibraryInstaller.Contracts' was not enabled - the project's source culture could not be determined. in the Multilingual App Toolkit output window.

Once you've done the steps above, select the desired project in the Solution Explorer and use Tools->Multilingual App Toolkit->Enable Selection to enable MAT in the selected project.

Enable MAT