Determine missing translations in RESX files

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For my globalized C# Windows Forms projects I set the designer value Localizable to true to store my default labels automatically into resx files.

My question is: Is there a build-in way or setting to determine and log that

ResourceManager.GetString("TranslatedLabel", resourceCulture);

wasn't able to find a translation for given resourceCulture and therefore took value from invariant resx file? It would be nice to have these issues reported within an error log.

Till now I can only find projects that compare resx files and try to find missing keys (e.g. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/322037/Localization-Sync). But for those tools you need to take care of every single component that is translated. So the possibility to miss one is way to high.

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Anything is possible with the right tools. Most any professional localization service uses Passolo, pretty sure it has this kind of consistency checking built-in. Whether you should buy the tool or the service is up to you. - Hans Passant

2 Answers

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One way to find missing ResX entries is by using ResEx. This is a VS extension that displays resources in different languages side-by-side and highlights missing entries in red. You can also filter the view to only show resources with missing entries.

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Since ResEx (mentioned by theDmi) isn't easy installable, because you could only download the archived project from Codeplex, I want to recommend ResXManager.