Welcome to the Resource Refactoring Tool Homepage!
Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files.
02/13/2007 We just released Resource Refactoring Tool 1.0. You can download it from releases section. 10/28/2007 Resource Refactoring Tool 1.0 release is updated to support Visual Studio 2008 as well.
Features for Resource Refactoring Tool
Works with C#, VB.Net languages. Supports all project types that ships with Visual Studio 2005 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.
Quick Start to using Resource Refactoring Tool
Run ResourceRefactor.msi to install. If you have any earlier version please uninstall those versions first and run Visual Studio at least once before installing the new version.
Launch Visual Studio 2005
Open either a VB.Net or C# project
Right click on a hard coded string in a a code window and choose Refactor - Extract to resource. If you don't see the menu item and you had a previous version of Resource Refactoring Tool installed before, you may have to reset the addin by running Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt with the following arguments: devenv.exe /resetaddin Microsoft.VSPowerToys.ResourceRefactor.Connect. This should fix the missing menu items.
Choose the resource file you want to use and either choose an existing resource or create a new one. After closing the dialog window, string will automatically be replaced with the reference to resource you have chosen.
