Internationalization

ReSharper detects strings that you can localize, highlights them, and helps you move them to a resource file.

Depending on your project settings, ReSharper can highlight all hard-coded string literals, or only those explicitly marked with Localizable(true).

When ReSharper finds a localizable string, it helps you move it to a resource file as quickly as possible. You can optionally search for identical strings and refactor them to use the new resource item.

Depending on your project settings, strings that you can move to a resource file may or may not be highlighted with a curly underline. If a string is not highlighted, press Ctrl+Shift+R and select the Move to Resource refactoring. If a string is highlighted with a curly underline, as it is in the screenshot above, you can press Alt+Enter and launch the refactoring directly from the list of quick-fixes.

In addition to strings used in C# or VB.NET code, ReSharper is able to process strings from markup files in web applications and arbitrary HTML strings.

In addition to moving strings to resource files, ReSharper provides a number of other internationalization refactorings:

• Move Resource refactoring moves existing resource entries between resource files.
• Rename Resource helps change the value of the name attribute in a resource entry.
• Inline Resource deletes a resource entry from a resource file and substitutes all its usages with the original string.
• Safe Delete Resource attempts to delete a resource entry along with all its usages without breaking the code. If Resharper finds out that some usages can not be auto-deleted safely, it suggests that you edit them manually before applying the refactoring.

For details on other refactorings provided in ReSharper, see Refactorings.

ReSharper provides a number of code inspections that help reveal common issues with resource entries.

Specifically, ReSharper warns you whenever a specific resource value is not overridden in a specific culture, or it is overridden with the same name that is used in the culture-neutral resource file. ReSharper make you aware of duplicate resource names in a single resource file, and it's even able to detect missing or redundant format string placeholders in resource values.

ReSharper displays highlighting in the text editor when it detects issues like these. In addition, you can glance through (and navigate to) all issues in resource files using ReSharper's Find Code Issues feature.

Finally, ReSharper provides quick-fixes that you can use to resolve these issues in resource files right away.