Hi All,
I have an application that uses several VS.NET 2003 setup projects that package various components cna applications into MSI files. I need to provide foreign language support for 5-6 languages other than English. Do VS.NET 2003 setup projects support internationaliation? If so, can someone point me to resources for getting this to work? Also, do VS.NET 2005 setup projects support internationalization? Thanks in advance.

Dave

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Hi Dave. The answer for both VS .NET 2003 and VS 2005 is "Yes", but each
handles this scenario differently.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 includes Setup resources for the Visual Studio
languages:

Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Spanish

These different language versions are created by setting the Localization
property in your Setup Deployment project, then building. If you need
languages other than the above, you will need to edit the resulting MSI's
strings using an MSI editor or localization tool.

In VS 2005, different Setup language versions are created by setting the
Publish language. You can select any .NET Framework-supported language,
though default resources are only available for those languages for which
you have installed the corresponding .NET Runtime language pack. This step
is performed on the Publish Options dialog of a project's Publish
properties page.

Different resource assemblies can be included in the Setup package by
individually selecting them in the Application Files dialog.

Cheers,
Garrett McGowan [MSFT Developer International]

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provide foreign language support for 5-6 languages other than English. Do
VS.NET 2003 setup projects support internationaliation? If so, can someone
point me to resources for getting this to work? Also, do VS.NET 2005 setup
projects support internationalization? Thanks in advance.

What if I want to create a setup package employing Indic? I also want to
make the setup package to have an option to select the language. I can do
such a thing using CultureInfo class for the VS.NET application. But how do
I do it for the setup package?

Regards,
Pavanaja

"Garrett McGowan[MSFT]" <GarrMc (AT) online (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

Hi Garrett,
Thanks for the reply. I did not notice the Localization option in the
properties table. I also appreciate the extra info on 2005. Hopefully, we
will be moving our app to the new .NET 2.0 framework before spring. Thanks
again.
Dave

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"Garrett McGowan[MSFT]" <GarrMc (AT) online (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote