Is there a Visual Studio add-in for populating resource files from strings in a code file?

Question

I'm maintaining a WinForms application which was not written using any development patters conducive to localizing the classes in the project which were not directly associated with forms, or the code-behind partials of the forms.

Thus, there is MessageBox() code with English text in it in almost every code file. I'd like to find a tool which will "scrape" those strings from the code, insert the strings in a resource file, and substitute a call to the resource with the substituted string in a comment.

Does such a tool exist?

Answer 1

See ReSharper 5 Internationalization Features

When ReSharper finds a localizable string, it helps you move it to a resource file with only a couple of clicks. You can optionally search for identical strings and refactor them to use the new resource item.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

The Visual Localizer projects focuses on this very issue and is free.