Re: UNICODE conversion

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:08:05 -0700

Message-ID:

<C34A125F-2817-482B-A15D-4203063517A6@microsoft.com>

Hi Joe,

This is turning into a C# support forum :o)

I'm working with C# in ASP.NET and I use a globalresources.resx file
paradigm and I can do something like:

String cs = Resources.GlobalResources.MyString;

Which will grab the string from whichever culture file is active (language).
I find this to be even handier than trying to use LoadString() and having to
load the resource DLL's etc. Since my application is running in a browser I
can also just change my preferred language in the browser settings to switch
between languages. Very handy for testing.

I think ToString() is handy, but I seldom use it since it except with
numbers since it ignores the translation mechanism.

Tom

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:mfdit35hgfk3qf828of54ppqahgrs0und2@4ax.com...

Up to a certain point, const declarations and generics will help. But
every once in a
while, having a code-generator integrated into the compiler system is
useful, such as

#define TYPECASE(x) case x: return _T(#x); break

and similar techniques. In the absence of good macros, tricks like this
become difficult,
although the C# ToString function handles the above situation trivially,
it doesn't
generalize to situations such as

#define TYPECASE(x) case x: s.LoadString(IDS_#x); return s

where localization is necessary. Since C# seems to embed all the literals
int he code
instead of in resources, I find this doesn't help a lot (what is the
opposition to dialog
templates, STRINGTABLE, MESSAGETABLE, etc. in C#?)
joe