Is there a best-practice approach for internationalization of an application?

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Published on 2010-04-06T20:39:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 20:43 UTC
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We need to have our apps be translated into other languages. This entails renaming the .text properties of our visible controls as well as other literals found within our apps to whatever language we need to translate into.

Is this something that can easily be accomplished with .resx files? I was thinking of creating a master resx key/value list where the key would be the fully qualified name of the control/variable/constant etc. and then refactor our apps to look into this file to get their values based on the cultureinfo found at runtime?

Is there a standard or simpler approach to this problem?

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