Overview

LocShare MAT is a plug-in forMultilingual App Toolkit v4.0 Beta (MAT). This plug-in is a simple tool that creates and manages Translation Memory（TM） that is consumed by MAT locally. “LocShare MAT” is consisted of Local Translation Memory Tool and Local Translation Provider. It mainly focuses on 3 areas as follows:

NOTE: LocShare MAT follows Microsoft Private Policy strictly and doesn’t collect your data.

Local Translation Memory Database

If you are a MAT user who wants to own a private TM that can be recycled accurately and safely, this tool can help you build up and maintain such a TM database locally. You can simply create the database by importing your localized and proofed MAT based XLIFF files throughLocal Translation Memory Tool. The import process will only accept translation marked as Final (or signed off – v3.1 only state). Once imported, the translation can be searched via theSearch TM tab in the Tool’s UI.

Translation Memory leverage in runtime

The Local Translation Provider allows access to the Local TM via a MAT based translation provider. This enables the Editor as well as the Visual Studio (VS) integration to retrieve exact match translation. The Provider is installed as the preferred provider. It allows the local TM to have the first preference.

After installation of LocShare MAT, you will see tools icons showing on “Translate” and “Suggest” inMultilingual Editor menu when you launch it.

Before:

Then:

You can just click them to call your local TM. Your will see the TM will always come first once exact matches are found (as showing below).Local Translation Provider is the indicator of your local TM.

Local Translation Memory sharing

Although the local TM is stored in your machine locally, you can always allow it to be shared within small groups or organizations. LocShare follows TAUS Translation Service API standard and enables the data invoke via http protocol, e.g. You can modify key parameters highlighted below:

http://localhost:12222/translate?sourceLanguage=en-US&targetLanguage=ja-JP&source=overvie

Or you can connect the local TMs in other machines after configuringAddress and Port. Vice versa, the other machines with LocShare MAT installed can visit your local TM through this remote access.

NOTE:LocShare MAT doesn’t open the port through firewall during the installation. To make the local TM in a certain machine reachable remotely, you need to make sure that the certain port’s inbound rule is allowed from the firewall in that machine.

Installation requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 32-bit or 64-bit; Windows 10 32-bit and 64-bit

Required Software: Multilingual App Toolkit v4.0 Beta and .Net 4.0 or above

Disk Space Requirements: 10 MB (x86), 10 MB (x64)

Instructions

Click the Download link on this page to start downloading the installation package file (MSI). Then do one of the following:

To start the installation immediately, click Run.
To save the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save.
Please note that theLocal Translation Memory Tool UI will pop up automatically after you install the MSI at first time.

Populating the Local TM:

Start theLocal Translation Memory Tool
Select theImport XLIFF tab
Click on the “…” button
Select the XLIFF file to import (Note: Multi-select is not enabled)

Note: After usingLocal Translation Memory Tool for the first time, you can always search it in your machine and pin it to the task bar or create a short cut (Windows 8 as an example).

Searching the Local TM:

Start theLocal Translation Memory Tool
Select theSearch TM tab
Select the desired source and target language.Note: The language list does not represent availability of translation in that language
Enter the text and hit Searchbutton to search. Note: Case is insensitive, but exact language pairs and phrases must match exact. Language fallback and fuzzy matching is not supported in this preview version.

Using the Local Translation Provider:

Once the tool is installed, MAT will automatically pick up theLocal Translation Provider in both VS and the editor (for information on creating 3rd party translation providers please visithere)

Additional information

To use the Microsoft Translator functionality available in the standalone editor, you must have an active Internet connection. But you can leverage your local TM stored in your machine by using LocShare MAT offline.

Please see detailed information about MAT 4.0 Beta here.