Smartphone Developer Forum - multilingual shortcuts

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multilingual shortcuts

nickiname

2005-01-23, 4:04 pm

I'm developing a multilingual app (Smartphone 2002), and I'm using the
related features, such as having several exe files, one for each language.
Tedious, but working.
But the problem is when creating a shortcut. I don't know how to create it
in a way that its non-English name appears when using another language.

Is there a special string resource to use?
A special option in .inf file?
Anu clues?

Thanks a lot.

Neil Enns [MSFT]

2005-01-23, 4:04 pm

Are you using several EXEs or multiple DLLs with your resources in them?
Smartphone supports MUI, a way of localizing applications so you can have
one app but multiple resource DLLs. That doesn't solve your shortcut issue,
but does help reduce the number of executables you have to manage.

Funny enough, I just did a google search and came up with the answer to all
of this. It was an old blog post I made that I completely forgot about, that
points to Riki's excellent writeup of how this all works:
http://homepages.inspire.net.nz/~gambit/Article/#i18n.

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Neil Enns
Program Manager
Microsoft Visual Studio for Devices

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"nickiname" <nickiname@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BA87A680-FA0F-4B66-9D0F-2BD6465556FB@microsoft.com...
> I'm developing a multilingual app (Smartphone 2002), and I'm using the
> related features, such as having several exe files, one for each language.
> Tedious, but working.
> But the problem is when creating a shortcut. I don't know how to create it
> in a way that its non-English name appears when using another language.
>
> Is there a special string resource to use?
> A special option in .inf file?
> Anu clues?
>
> Thanks a lot.

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