Create resx with model properties

[figueiredorj]

Hi,

for our application with are making it bilingue - supporting many languages.

Right now we are doing a tedious task which is transpose all properties in model for a resx where after it there is a tool we use to make translations.

Would it be possible to generate a resx file from T4 of dbcontext with name of entity and all it's properties?
How would I accomplish it?

Any help appretiated

[MariiaI]

You can try using this template:

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<#
// template for Devart Entity Developer C# code generation.
// Copyright (c) 2008-2015 Devart. All rights reserved.
#>
<#@ template language="C#" #>
<#@ include file="Validation.tmpl" #>
<#@ assembly name="System.Core" #>
<#@ import namespace="System.Collections" #>
<#@ import namespace="System.Collections.Generic" #>
<#@ import namespace="System.Linq" #>
<#@ property name="Output" category="Output" type="OutputInfo" editor="OutputInfoEditor" description="Specifies output for the generation." #>
<#

  // Settings
  string baseFileName = model.FileName;
 
  foreach (var cls in model.Classes) {
    string rootFileName = cls.Name;
    output.Extension = ".resx";
    output.PushOutputRedirection(Output, "", rootFileName, OverwriteMode.Overwrite, BuildAction.EmbeddedResource, CopyToOutputDirectory.DoNotCopy, "ResXFileCodeGenerator", "");
#>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
  <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
    <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" />
    <xsd:element name="root" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
      <xsd:complexType>
        <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
          <xsd:element name="metadata">
            <xsd:complexType>
              <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" />
              </xsd:sequence>
              <xsd:attribute name="name" use="required" type="xsd:string" />
              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
            </xsd:complexType>
          </xsd:element>
          <xsd:element name="assembly">
            <xsd:complexType>
              <xsd:attribute name="alias" type="xsd:string" />
              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
            </xsd:complexType>
          </xsd:element>
          <xsd:element name="data">
            <xsd:complexType>
              <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
                <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
              </xsd:sequence>
              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
              <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="3" />
              <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" msdata:Ordinal="4" />
              <xsd:attribute ref="xml:space" />
            </xsd:complexType>
          </xsd:element>
          <xsd:element name="resheader">
            <xsd:complexType>
              <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
              </xsd:sequence>
              <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
            </xsd:complexType>
          </xsd:element>
        </xsd:choice>
      </xsd:complexType>
    </xsd:element>
  </xsd:schema>
  <resheader name="resmimetype">
    <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
  </resheader>
  <resheader name="version">
    <value>2.0</value>
  </resheader>
  <resheader name="reader">
    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
  </resheader>
  <resheader name="writer">
    <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
  </resheader>
    <#
      // Class properties
      foreach (Property property in cls.Properties) {
#>
<data name="<#= property.Name #>">
    <value>"<#= property.Type #>"</value>
</data>
<#
      }
      // Class navigation properties  
      foreach (RelationProperty relationProperty in cls.RelationProperties) {
#>
            <#= relationProperty.Name #> 
<#
      }
#>
</root>
      <#
      output.PopOutputRedirection();
  }
  // End of generation
#>

JIC: this sample shows a simple way to implement such scenario, you can modify and extend it in the way, that is most suitable for you.

Please tell us if this helps.

[figueiredorj]

Thanks