Dear users and developers,

I have an problem using Dotfuscator Community Edition, i have developed an
multilanguage application
and want to use Dotfuscator on it, but when i try to launch my application
it runs only with a
default culture. I already have lost many days on searching for a
solution. I read on the
Dotfuscator manual that it do it automaticaly and dont have to include the
language dlls. I dont
know how to solve this question and will be happy for any sugestion.

thanks in advance

Daniel Junges

Hi Daniel. I hadn't heard of this happening before now, but look into it on
my side. It will help if you can provide additional details though:

* .NET Framework version number
* Project type
* Programming language

Thanks,
Garrett McGowan [MSFT Developer International]

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Also, and most importantly:

* Dotfuscator version number

By the way, I just tried this scenario with a VB .NET application in Visual
Studio 2005 (Dotfuscator 3.0) and it worked fine. I needed to copy the
culture directory and resource assembly to the output path, but then it
loaded the localized resources as expected.

Garrett McGowan [MSFT Developer International]

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Dear Garrett McGowan,

thanks for you response

* Dotfuscator version number: Community Edition 1.2.1879.17199
* .NET Framework version number: 1.1 with sp1
* Project type: WindowsApplication
* Programming language: C#

here my xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE dotfuscator SYSTEM
"http://www.preemptive.com/dotfuscator/dtd/dotfuscator_v1.1.dtd">
<dotfuscator version="1.1">
<!--This is application generated code. Do not edit manually.-->
<global>
<option>verbose</option>
</global>
<trigger>
<filelist>
<file dir="${configdir}\" name="Lector.exe" />
</filelist>
</trigger>
<output>
<file dir="${configdir}\output" />
</output>
<tempdir>
<file dir="${configdir}\temp" />
</tempdir>
<renaming>
<mapping>
<mapoutput overwrite="true">
<file dir="${configdir}\reports\" name="dotfuscatorMap_v1.0.xml" />
</mapoutput>
</mapping>
</renaming>
</dotfuscator>


Thanks,
Daniel Junges





On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:36:27 -0300, Garrett McGowan[MSFT]
<GarrMc (AT) online (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote:



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Thank you Daniel. Here is additional information from the team:

Community Edition should be able to rename neutral resources associated
with renamed classes (e.g., a Windows Forms class); however, it will not
propogate the new names into the corresponding resources inside satellite
DLLs. You can work around this limitation by not renaming classes
associated with resources inside satellite DLLs.

Additional questions from the developer:
* Is the application indeed using satellite DLLs to store localized
resources?
* Is the application strongly-named?
* Is the application giving an error when trying to load the localized
resources, or is it silently loading the neutral resources when it should
be finding the localized versions?

Thank you,
Garrett McGowan [MSFT Developer International]

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Thank you Garrett McGowan,

* Is the application indeed using satellite DLLs to store localized
resources?
Answer: Yes, they are the from Visual Studio automaticaly generated
recources DLLs.

* Is the application strongly-named?
Answer: no.

* Is the application giving an error when trying to load the localized
resources, or is it silently loading the neutral resources when it should
be finding the localized versions?
Answer: It is silently loading the neutral resources.


Thank you
Daniel Junges



On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:26:00 -0300, Garrett McGowan[MSFT]
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Response from PreEmptive Solutions (paraphrased):

The Community Edition (all versions, including 3.0) doesn't propagate
mangled names into satellite DLLs. When a resource corresponding to a
class name gets renamed in the neutral DLL, the names in the satellite DLLs
are not changed.

The way to avoid this problem is to not rename any classes that inherit
from the Windows.Form class. The associated neutral resources will then
also not be renamed and so will match the resource names in the satellite
DLLs.

Garrett McGowan [MSFT Developer International]

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