Catch missing local resources in resx files

Question

I have many resource files, in many different languages.

Lets suppose for example we are supporting 3 languages (en, de, fr), and have this file:

common.resx common.de.resx common.fr.resx

I would like to detect occurrences when for instance a resource is requested in de, but is missing and so reverts to the default language. Is there any way of catching this? (so I can log it and later add the missing resource).

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want to catch the differences use RESX Synchronizer. It is an open source app that can synchornize all differences from main resx to localized one (it adds and/or removes keys in the localized resource).

You can use it as follows to copy all changes from common.resx to common.de.resx:

resxsync /v common.resx common.de.resx

The /v option list all changes that is all keys that were added to or removed from the de resx.