What is this project all about?

Implementing a custom resource provider for .Net is fairly straightforward and well documented. There are even some good examples.

Making it play nicely with Visual Studio's Generate Local Resource is more complicated. This project attempts to address this by creating an assembly that handles the Design Time implementation of the built in ResourceProviderFactory allowing developers to use any repository and still take advantage of the resource generator in the IDE.

If you are embarking on a large localisation project I also suggest you read this thread

Beta 0.2 Released

I've added a zip release of the code for download today. There's a demo web application project that shows how to implement the SQL resource provider and even demonstrates how to let the user set their culture.

There is a Create Script in the database project that creates a database and table to store the resource strings in and injects a few lines for the demo site's default page.

The solution defaults to the current UI culture (whatever the users browser is set to) to display content.

I still haven't added support for the 'Generate Local Resource' tool in Visual Studio as I'm waiting on some guidance from the experts. Watch this space...