Tips on refactoring existing .net applications to support localization?

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Published on 2010-04-12T19:53:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 20:23 UTC
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We're going global. I've been tasked with refactoring our existing products to support localization. Last week I shunned using resource files (.resx) in favor of a home-baked database look-up method. After hitting a serious snag with that, I'm back to the microsoft way of using resx.

All the documentation I've seen so far details how to create new "World-Ready" applications, but I don't see anything on changing existing applications. Is my only recourse to touch the application form by form and control by control to have it point to newly created resource files?

Any good sources/links for internationalizing your apps?

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