Visual Studio Resource Refactoring Tool

Update: Version 3.0 now supports XAML, Razor and ASPX!

Resource Refactoring Tool was originally contributed onCodePlex.

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

Features for Resource Refactoring Tool

• Works with C#, VB.NET languages. Supports all project types that ships with Visual Studio 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.

To see full feature set and usage instructions visitResource Refactoring Tool homepage.

I'm not original developer of the tool but I use it intensivelly and we've added several new features to it. 

It seems that original developer (microsoft) has no intention of upgrading this tool for Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 So, this fork.

Original Resource Refactoring Tool was published underMicrosoft Public License (Ms-PL), I hope I do not violate it by republishing it here. As I undertand it Ms-PL requires derived work to be licensed under Ms-PL as well, so this Resource Refactoring Tool 2010 is licensed under Ms-PL.

New in version 3.0

• Razor (VBHTML and CSHTML) support (thanks to CRSnyder for CSHTML)
• Several bug fixes (see list on CodePlex; thanks to CodePlex users who contributed fixes to several bugs via patches)
• Visual Studio 2012 support
• ASPX (ASCX, MASTER) support
• Some changes in Addin architecture

New in version 2.1:

• XAML support
  • Extract attribute value from XAML file to resource
  • XAML support has some limitations - e.g. the resource class (module in VB) and the resource property must be public.
• Undo context. Resource refactoring is now property reported in Undo buffer.