ResOrg

ResOrg is designed to take the drudgery out of the process of managing Visual C++ resource symbols.

If you have ever seen this message box when editing a dialog, you probably need ResOrg:

This happens because two symbols with the same value have been used in the same dialog template, and usually arises as a direct result of the way the resource editor allocates symbols.

The problem is that the editor is not particularly intelligent in the way it allocates symbol ID values - and does not provide any facilities to unravel the mess that can all too easily arise as a result. The end result can be a large number of conflicting resource symbol values or even unpredictable behaviour at runtime.

ResOrg can help by offering facilities to manage resource symbols at file, module and solution level:

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ResOrg offers many features to help make managing resource symbol files easier, of which the following are a small selection:

• Easy to interpret displays of the symbols within resource files.

• Detection of out of range and conflicting symbols.

• Detection and correction of incorrect "Next Symbol" values.

• Customisable HTML reports.

• Manual and automated symbol renumbering.

• Automatic exclusion of specified symbols (such as IDR_MAINFRAME) from renumbering operations.

• Automatic updating of Visual Studio 2010 ribbon designer (.mfcribbon-ms) files when symbols are renumbered.

ResOrg includes both a Visual Studio plug-in (compatible with all versions of Visual Studio from Visual Studio .NET 2002 through to Visual Studio 2019) and a standalone application. The latter is compatible with projects for virtually all versions of Visual C++ - including not only current versions of Visual Studio but also older versions such as Visual C++ 6.0 and eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0.

For more information please visit https://www.riverblade.co/products/resorg.