ReswPlus is a Visual Studio extension enriching your existing .resw files with many highly valuable features:
- Access to strings via strongly typed static properties.
- Automatically generate methods to format your strings
- Support typed and named parameters, literal strings, string references and Macros
- Pluralization support (for 196 languages!).
- Support empty states when the number of items is zero.
- Variants support
- Generate a Markup extension to access to your strings with compile-time verification.
Supported:
- Visual Studio 2017 and 2019 (all versions).
- C#, VB.Net, C++/CX and C++/WinRT.
| Resw | Resw with ReswPlus | Resx | Android XML (for reference) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modify UI properties via resource files (x:uid) | ✅ | ✅ | ||
| Generate strongly typed accessors | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Generate String Formatting methods | ✅ | |||
| Support Plural forms | ✅ | ✅ | ||
| Support 'None' state | ✅ | |||
| Auto-generate methods for string formatting | ✅ | |||
| Support literal strings in string formatter | ✅ | |||
| Support Macros in string formatter | ✅ | |||
| Support String references in string formatter | ✅ | |||
| Strongly typed string formatting | ✅ | |||
| Support Resources in libraries | ✅ | ✅ | ||
| Support String variants (including genders) | ✅ |
⚡ How to install ReswPlus - Learn how to install ReswPlus for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019
⚡ Use ReswPlus in your project - Learn how to use ReswPlus in your projects
ReswPlus can generate a class exposing all strings from your .resw files as strongly typed static properties, providing a compile-time-safe way to access those strings XAML-side or code-side.
🗨 How to generate a strongly typed class
ReswPlus can add support of pluralization and plural forms to your localization strings. Plural forms of 196 languages are currently supported by ReswPlus.
🗨 How to add pluralization
⚙️ Support Empty States
⚙️ Languages supported
To simplify your ViewModels and Views, ReswPlus can directly manage the formatting of your localization and generate strongly typed methods to format your strings.
🗨 How to use String Formatting
⚙️ Named parameters
⚙️ Use String References
⚙️ Use Literal Strings
⚙️ Use Macros
ReswPlus can support many variants/versions of the same string and allow you to display the one you want based on criteria (variants to support genders, different messages depend on some criteria...)
String formatting in C++ is quite different and more complicated than in C#/VB.Net. ReswPlus provides a way to use the same string templates as you use in .Net (via String.Format) but in your C++ project, making your resource files shareable with .Net libraries and simplifying your code.