Version

Date

Description

• Restructuring of XAML scan, in particular the manner in which it loads referenced assemblies using a separate AppDomain.
  
• Catch COMExceptions generated saving an Excel file.
  
• Bug fix on using the command "Change language identification" on the original language of a project.
  
• Better error checking on opening a file in an editor window (in particular if the file has been removed from the project).
  
• On changing the original language of unmanaged C++/MFC project, automatically modify the LANGUAGE statement in the original .rc file. (In non localized projects, it is not uncommon for resources to be marked as English(US), even if they are in some other language.)
  
• Toolbar in Add-In window changed from a ToolBar control to a ToolStrip control. All drop down menus are now handled directly by the ToolStrip control.
  (This changes the look and feel slightly. It is a much bigger change than you would imagine.)
  
• Detect javascript in ASP files using the type attribute (type="text/javascript"). Previously this only considered the language attribute.
  

• Bug fix to prevent ASP script code being handled as basic HTML text.
  

• Bug fixes:
  
  • Fix to logic to detect resource-only-dlls
    
  • Fix to logic to show text in original language for non-selected items
    
  • Expand project root node in controls grid after scan
    
  • Don't show rescan-menu if there is no current project (which can only be the result of an earlier error)
    

• Beta version of multiple project support:
  
  • Additional item in the drop down list of projects <Select projects> opens a dialog in which you can select one or more projects it the current solution.
    
  • All selected projects are scanned. The texts of all the projects are displayed in the grids.
    
  • A modified Excel format can be used to export the texts from multiple projects to a single Excel worksheet.
    
  • In this version, each project has an independent project database (as previously).
    

• Bug fix recognizing project type. (Previous version did not recognize web projects at all!)
  

• Bug fixes in dialogs to (1) store resources and (2) rescan selected components.
  
• Exclude MFC satellite DLLs from the drop down project list.
  
• Exclude the project MLRuntime from the drop down project list.
  

• Bug fix importing from 3-Worksheet Excel format, if a new String-ID has been generated for a text in the source code.
  
• Do not set the localizable property for ignored modules.
  
• (Countless internal changes in preparation for working with multiple projects in a solution in a future version.)
  

• New method of sending error report via email, which automatically attaches the log file.
  

• Correction to controls scan via source code (scanning InitializeComponent) to detect (for example) columns of ListView controls.
  

• More general logic to prevent prompts to save files during the controls scan, by saving them automatically.
  

• Prevent occasional prompt to save a .resx file during the controls scan, by saving it automatically.
  

• Some additional exception handlers added to the (new) Excel import and export dialogs.
  

• Minor correction to the way that the VB code scanner recognizes preprocessor directives.
  

• Minor correction to the logic to detect UTF8 encoding without byte order mark. This function previously generated an error for files of less than 3 bytes.
  
• Restructuring of the Excel Export and Import functions so that all three supported Excel formats are exported using a common dialog and imported using a common dialog. On export, you can select the format via a drop down list (the default is the simple format). On import, the format is detected automatically.
  

• Just some translations
  

• Better error handling for write protected source files. In previous versions, an attempt to modify a write protected file could lead to a COM-exception in Visual Studio.
  
• Set BasePath property of ResXResourceReader class whenever it is used. This should prevent an exception reading references to image files.
  
• Modified logic to add the MLRuntime project to the solution. Previously, an error occurred if the MLRuntime project files were already present.
  
• New logic to export texts to Excel dependent on the translation status. You can now select exact which status values should be exported.
  
• Template files now installed to the Common Documents directory and not to Program Files.
  
• Minor change to the SelectLanguage.cpp template for unmanaged C++ projects.
  

• Minor fixes to Open Document import.
  
• Change SQL parameter names to lower case for SQL Server Compact Edition.
  

• Bug fix in ASP scan. Texts were previously ignored following a script block.
  

• Minor update to logic to enable and disable the drop down language list on the toolbar.
  
• Additional logging added to Search Next function.
  

• Corrected handling of ignored modules in the ASP/HTML scan.
  
• New handling of TITLE tag on ASP Master pages.
  
• Check for read only XML project database.
  
• Improved logic to enable and disable the Show in Multi-Language (go to line) button on the toolbar.
  
• Improved error handling in Show in Multi-Language button and context menu command.
  

• Database update for MDB format project database to add the table IgnoredModules. (Has no effect on the XML format project database).
  

• Bug fix restoring the results of the controls scan from the project database.
  

• Support for MFC Satellite Dlls.
  
• Ctrl-Space can now be used to toggle whether a component is ignored.
  
• Ctrl-Space and the equivalent command in the context menu now work with multiple selection.
  

• Some field sizes increased from 1024 to 4096 in the ADO.NET datasets for the the global database and the project database. In the case of the project database, this only affects the Access database format and not the XML format.
  

• Project list in the Select project dialog now includes projects in solution folders. (These projects were already included in the drop down project list, but in the dialog!)
  

• Bug fix rescanning single components when "scan controls via source code" is selected and the component in question does not have a designer window.
  
• Additional logic in XAML scan to handle xmlns attributes in nodes other than the root node.
  

• Automatic detection of UTF-8 encoding for source code files without a byte order mark (BOM), as far as this is possible.
  
• Corrected handling of content properties in XAML, using the ContentPropertyAttribute on the class definition.
  

• Check the availability of Microsoft Translator and get a list of the supported languages in a background thread (rather than the main thread). This speeds up the initialization of the Add-In and prevents it from blocking if there are problems connecting to the online service.
  
• New option to select whether components in the controls tab are sorted according to their base class (e.g. Form or UserControl), which was previously the only option. By default this option is not selected.
  

• Bug fix scanning XAML files based on the PageFunction type.
  

• Bug fix opening the Add-In Settings dialog (only for VS 2008 and 2005)
  

• Sort list of components in Export to resources dialog.
  
• New option to hide ignored modules when "hidden nodes" are hidden. By default this option is selected.
  
• Menu command Native runtime support renamed as Regenerate resources (now that resources are exported automatically anyway).
  

• Option added to 'Simple Excel Export' to indicate the translation status with the background colour.
  
• Bug fix in generating .resx file (in version 4.7x.0018).
  

• Minor corrections to Excel Import/Export functions:
  
  • 'Only new, modified and untranslated' strings on export
    
  • 'Update status of all imported strings' on import
    
• Exception handler for concurrency violation added to update of properties table in (MDB format) project database.
  
• For unmanaged C++/MFC projects, the remove language command now removes language specific resources from the .rc file.
  
• Some efficiency improvements in the source code scan for unmanaged C++/MFC projects (in particular for VS 2010).
  

• Modified logic in tree/grid to manage which nodes are actually visible.
  
• Correction to handling comment tags in the ASP/HTML scan.
  
• Improved error checking on updating the SourceScanResults information.
  
• Uninstall links to a feedback page on the web.
  

• Version of VCCodeModel.dll updated (9 for VS 2005/2008, 10 for VS 2010)
  

• Installation logic for SQL Server Compact 3.5 modified:
  
  • An existing installation is detected by the presence of the registry value
    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition\v3.5\Version
    The actual version number is not checked.
    (Previously a check was made via the Windows Installer, using several different product UUID's, but it was not enough. For example, different language versions have different product codes!)
    
  • The installation is not aborted if you decline to download and install SQL Server Compact 3.5.
    (However, in this case, the Add-In may not work!)
    

• Bug fix determining the highest numeric value nnnn used in the name ML_nnnn of a node in a XAML file.
  

• New logic to hide <%# %> and <%= %> script tags in ASP files.
  

• New logic to detect extended properties (e.g. Tooltip on ToolTip1) which works with with VS 2010.
  

• Another modification to the logic to add the menu command to the tools menu, which should work reliably on localized versions of Visual Studio.
  
• New logic to load and unload assemblies which are referenced in WPF projects, by loading them into a separate AppDomain.
  

• Creating menu command in tools menu fixed.
  

• Further development of support for strings in script code embedded in ASP.NET files.
  (This version mostly works, except for hiding items with the sun/moon icon, which is not yet implemented.)
  
• Show in Multi-Language context menu command fixed for Visual Studio 2010.
  
• Runtime-language-switching support for Web Projects no longer added to .master files.
  
• After a scan, changes to any original texts are handled as a change to the text in the original language and (new) immediately stored to the language specific resource files.
  

• Modified handling of referenced assemblies in WPF projects.
  
• New logic to insert ml_string() call into script code in ASP files. Still experimental.
  

• Fix bug which could cause target files in a multi-project solution to be locked.
  
• Option to enable code scan in ASP files. This is for experimental use only.
  
• Modified handling of referenced assemblies in WPF projects.
  

• Size of field XPath in ControlsScanResults increased from 255 to 8192.
  
• License check added on changing the status of a translation from online to edited.
  

• Separate versions created for Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010, compiled against the .NET framework versions 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0 respectively.
  Version numbers used as follows:
  
  • 4.70 Visual Studio 2005
    
  • 4.71 Visual Studio 2008
    
  • 4.72 Visual Studio 2010
    

• Previous change reverted.
  
• Suppress writing changes to project database to disk during the initialisation phase.
  

• Write XML project database by calling the function DataSet.WriteXml with an XmlWriter object, instead of simply specifying the filename. This is a desperate attempt to avoid a file locking problem (which might only be with Windows 7).
  
• Check for presence of Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 ENU 3.5.8080 before downloading and installing an older version!
  

• Efficiency improvement accessing XML format project database, in particular during the initial scan.
  

• Context menu command Go to next conflict changed to Go to next 'out of date' translation.
  
• Some texts translated to German and French.
  

• Column original text removed. The original text is shown in the column for the original language.
  
• New translation status out of date. If the original text is changed in the project, then this text is automatically copied to the original language. The status of all existing translations is set to out of date. The previous text is shown in the comment column.
  
• Excel export option Only export untranslated strings is now based on the translation status. If selected, then texts will be exported if:
  
  • one or more translations of the text are missing
    
  • one of more translations of the text do not have the status spreadsheet import.
    
• New Excel import option to set the status of all imported texts to spreadsheet import, even if the imported text is identical to the previous text.
  
• New handling of escape sequences. Escape sequences are now always processed when the source code is scanned and stored in the unescaped state. If you wish to see escape sequences in the grid, then you can select an option in the Add-In setup dialog. (A similar option for the Excel export is coming soon).
  
• New code generation options for the function ml_UpdateControls():
  
  • Load global resources explicitly
    
  • Load local resources explicilty
    
  • Load local resources implicitly
    

• Improved error checking on storing texts to the global database.
  
• Some updates to the help file.
  

• Additional resources tab added for unmanaged C++/MFC projects.
  
• Some updates to the help file.
  

• Bug fix adding .resx files to web projects.
  

• Bug fix in ASP Scan
  

• New option to show the translation status as a tooltip. If not selected, and if a text is truncated (or wrapped onto multiple lines), then the full text is shown as a tooltip (which is probably a better feature).
  
• Some localization in French and German.
  
• Some updates to the help, in particular concerning the translation status.
  (The help file is still woefully out of date.)
  

• Always add generated resx files to the Visual Studio project. This now includes web projects.
  
• Change to dirty-flag in version 4.65.0074 mostly reversed. Updates are now only suppressed for Windows Forms components - when there is only one language in the project. In particular, this avoids pointlessly setting the localizable property after the initial scan.
  

• Bug fix reading accented characters from ASP files (or .rc files for unmanaged C++ projects), by specify encoding parameters to the StreamReader constructor.
  
• Avoid opening ASP designer windows on sorting the ASP grid, by suppressing unwanted selection changed events.
  

• XAML scan (for WPF projects) handles unnamed XML elements. If an attribute is selected for translation, or simply hidden, then a name attribute is generated for the element.
  
• Dirty-flag logic to save resource strings and - if necessary - set the localizable property for a form or usercontrol, disabled so long as there is only one language in the project.
  
• Bug fix iterating over a list of languages, which could be modified during the iteration.
  

• Bug fix in 3-Worksheet excel export, writing strings to the source code worksheet. (This was broken in version 4.65.)
  
• Check for newer versions of SQL Server Compact edition before downloading and installing it. In particular, check for the version installed with Visual Studio 2010 beta.
  

• Bug fix saving texts to .resx files immediately after editing the texts, for ASP projects.
  

• Support for online translation with the Google translator added.
  
• For C++/MFC projects, close any resource editor before updating the .rc file.
  

• Catch exception in additional resource scan, caused by missing image resource file.
  

• Modified logic for concatenating multiple texts for translation with the Microsoft Translator.
  
• New support for attributes.
  

• Minor fixes to WPF support.
  
• Minor fix to additional resource scan.
  

• Fix sorting components in ASP grid.
  
• Fix the go to line command in the editor context menu for ASP files.
  

• Additional error handling in the additional resource scan.
  

• Ignore source code files which are referenced in the project, but do not actually exist.
  
• Schema update function for global database made more robust.
  
• Always catch exceptions on the CodeElements.Count property.
  
• Fix bug in ASP scan which caused a rescan whenever you clicked on the component item in the grid.
  
• Fix bug in handling hidden texts in ASP pages, whose tag has an ID, but no meta:resoureckey attribute.
  
• Fix problems with context menu commands, when the menu is shown in an empty part of one of the grid windows.
  
• Suppress the context completely, if there is no active project.
  
• Catch exceptions from the function ProjectItem.IsOpen.
  

• Minor fix to logic to suppress ASP tags with no text and not localizable attributes.
  

• Do not show ASP tags with no text and no localizable attributes.
  
• Sort components in ASP grid.
  
• Hide sun icon for selected items (which cannot be hidden anyway).
  

• Bug fix in Go to line function for source or ASP code, via the Add-In toolbar or the code editor context menu.
  

• New tab for additional resources.
  
• New context menu command to change the original language of a project.
  

• Bug fix saving the expanded state of nodes in the ASP/HTML grid.
  

• New option for the ASP scan, to include properties which do not have the Localizable attribute.
  

• New options in the setup dialog to suppress showing a selected a control in a designer window, and to suppress showing the selected source code line in the code editor.
  

• Additional check for errors accessing a source code file on selecting or deselecting lines (in the source code).
  
• Special handling of ALT-Enter (to change the status of a translation to edited) fixed.
  
• Some updates to the help file.
  

• Minor efficiency improvement in spreadsheet import.
  
• Bug fix for properties in a string array which have been hidden. Previously these properties were always selected (and no longer hidden) after a rescan.
  

• New dialog to remove Multi-Language support, available via the tools menu.
  

• Catch exceptions using Visual Studio CodeModel
  
  • on accessing CodeElement.InfoLocation
    
  • on accessing CodeElements.Count
    
• Update local resource files after scan, if new properties are automatically selected.
  

• Dotnetrix.TabControlEx removed. (Standard TabControl without visual styles used instead.)
  
• Some additional checking for read only files.
  
• Safer exception handling in the function CloseNonVisibleWindows() (the windows collection can contain a window which has already been disposed!)
  

• Minor fixes to adding the language selection dialog to a WPF project.
  
• Automatically run custom tool on MultiLang.resx for WPF projects.
  

• Add language selection dialog feature supports WPF projects.
  
• Installation now supports Visual Studio 2010%%%(the Add-In seems to work, but hasn't been tested very much)
  
• Internal restructuring of functions which access the Visual Studio Code-Model recursively.
  

• Bug fix in search function (introduced in version 4.65)
  
• Catch exception checking out a file, or simply checking whether a file is under version control
  
• Handle illegal text records in XML project file (without LanguageID or without StringID)
  

• Support for _T macro in (unmanaged) C++ projects.
  
• Generate string tables in .rc files with STRINGTABLE PRELOAD DISCARDABLE instead of just STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE.
  

• Some updates to WPF support
  

• Minor modification to tree drawing logic (to handle cases which shouldn't happen anyway!)
  
• Bug fix in the code which restores the scan results from project database.
  

• TabControlEx 2.0.0.1 from Dotnetrix used.
  
• Support online translation with neutral language, if specific language is not supported.
  
• More error checking in XAML parser.
  
• Some minor fixes for C++/MFC support.
  

• Update and Delete SQL statements simplified for some tables in the project database (if the MDB format is used).
  
• First version with basic WPF support.
  

• Dotnetrix.TabControl removed. Standard TabControl used with visual styles disabled (because the tabs at the bottom of the control are rendered incorrectly with visual styles).
  

• Bug fix adding a (non existent) resx file to a project.
  
• Minor change to the configuration of the user interface to avoid unnecessary (and possibly dangerous?) resizing of the tab control.
  

• Prevent a NullReference exception (in the function FindFunction()), during the source code scan.
  

• Fix errors in Excel Export with illegal worksheet name, in particular for ASP projects.
  

• Some minor changes to avoid errors if a project contains both Windows Forms and WPF forms.
  (Still no WPF support, but it's coming soon.)
  

• Some tentative changes for WPF projects removed, because WPF and Windows Forms components can be mixed in a single project.
  
• Multiple texts passed to the Microsoft Translator in a single translation request, which improves performance and avoids a throughput limit at the server.
  

• Suppress generation of .resx files which do not contain any texts.
  
• Restore generation of neutral culture .resx file for web projects.
  
• Truncate mailto command line to 2000 characters.
  

• Add-In registration changed to XML method.
  

• Add logging of opening .resx files during scan.
  

• Bug fix inferring ASP properties from resources.
  

• Fix logic to trap prohibited changes to project database in unlicensed version.
  

• Fix resource export for properties of child controls, such as menu items.
  (An old project database may contain duplicate records with different names for the same property, e.g. MainMenu.Item(0).Text and FileMenu.Text, but with the same resource name. This could result in the resource not being exported!)
  

• Improved proxy support for Microsoft Translator.
  
• Improved logging of detected files and of opening designer windows.
  

• Proxy address option to the setup dialog.
  (Not yet tested on a system which needs it!)
  

• Set GeneralIDs.ResourceName to NULL on adding a new string ID, to meet constraint if the project database is an access database.
  
• Disallow changing the status of a translation to online translation or imported localization in an unlicensed version.
  

• Reworking of the limitations in the unlicensed version.
  
• Minor changes to the templates MlString.vb and MlString.cs, to handle the case where there is no RootNamespace.
  
• Additional Import statements added to the template SelectLanguage.vb.
  

• Optionally indicate the translation status with the background colour:
  
  • white = edited in grid
    
  • blue = original text
    
  • yellow = from global database
    
  • green = from excel import
    
  • red = online translation (Microsoft Translator)
    
• Commands to change the translation status:
  
  • In the context menu
    
  • In edit mode, ALT-UP and ALT-DOWN move to the cell above or below, and change the status of the translation to edited.
    
• Optionally set the background colour in the Excel export in the same manner
  
• Extended support for Microsoft Translator:
  
  • New command in tools menu
    
  • New command in context menu (in language submenu)
    
  • New option in Add Language dialog
    
• Note: The background colour is important in conjunction with online translation, because we can't expect online translations to be of a high quality. In general, a translator will still have to check every single text.
  

• Uninstall removes registry entries which are created by the installation.
  Registry entries created by the Add-In itself are not removed (yet).
  
• Uninstall removes registry keys which are created by the installation, if they are empty.
  
• Error report via email contains the windows version.
  
• Translation status is shown in the context menu, and can be modified.
  

• Bug fix in translation memory dialog (incorrect field length in ADO.NET DataTable definition).
  
• New fields in project database (in preparation for new features) to:
  
  • identify StringIDs which have been explicitly added by the user
    
  • define a status for each translation.
    

• Bug fix in copy operation after selecting Apply to all in the multiple-usage dialog.
  

• The Add-In no longer updates the neutral .resx files for Forms, UserControls or Web pages. It is better to leave this to Visual Studio
  (Exception: If you edit the original text in the Add-In's controls grid, then the neutral .resx file will be updated.)
  
• Check for NullReference during the scan of InitializeComponent(), on reading a text from the resource file.
  

• Controls scan via source code (InitializeComponent) now detects use of AddRange() method to initialise - for example - a combo box.
  

• Tutorial files are now installed to the Shared Documents directory (instead of Program Files).
  
• New command in the Add-In's Help Menu opens the Windows Explorer in this directory.
  

• Fix error showing context menu on column headers and add exception handler to this function. (The previous version crashed!)
  

• Installation modified to grant users modify access to the global database file in common application data directory.
  (No program change. No version change.)
  

• Minor corrections to installation.
  

• Bug fixes editing the original text column in the controls grid.
  
• Bug fix in C++ source code scan (detecting function names).
  

• Global database now uses SQL Server Compact 3.5.
  
• If it is not already installed, then it is downloaded and installed automatically.
  
• SQL Server and Access are still supported, but the database files are no longer included in the installation.
  

• More exception handling on enumerating CodeElements.
  

• New grid component used
  
• All database access finally with ADO.NET
  
• Consistent handling of hidden items in both grids
  
• Immediate updates to .resx files
  
• Immediate updates to the function ml_UpdateControls()
  
• Toggle between two modes for column sizing
  
• Option to ignore specified modules
  
• Auto generated files ignored automatically
  
• Microsoft Translator button in translation memory dialog
  

• Additional error checking on the FileCodeModel.CodeElements property, which can cause a COMException (in the function FindFunction()).
  

• Bug fix in controls scan, for properties which have been explicitly deselected.
  
• Bug fix recognizing forms which derive only indirectly from System.Windows.Forms.Form.
  

• Truncate worksheet name to 31 characters and remove special characters during Excel export.
  

• Catch error on CodeElement.FullName.
  

• Automatically import texts from existing .resx files for new projects (with prior localization).
  

• Test for member variable for a control removed. Alternative code generation for this case also removed, because it did not always compile correctly. Controls with GenerateMember=False are not supported.
  

• Avoid COMException from EnvDTE.FileCodeModel.CodeElements at another place (see also 4.60.0038).
  

• Modified procedure to attach global database file to an existing instance of SQL Server. This is performed with the utility AttachGlobalDatabase, which now uses late binding to work with SQL Server 2005 or 2008, if one of these is installed.
  (No change to the Add-In itself.)
  

• Store global database connection in HKCU\Software\Jollans\MultiLang instead of HKCU\Software\Jollans\MultiLang2005 or ...\MultiLang2008:
  
  • for compatibility with the VB6 Add-In
    
  • for compatibility with possible future products (Excel Add-In?)
    
  • because differentiating between VS 2005 and 2008 was stupid anyway
    
• Install SQL Server datafile for global database (to Common App Data\MultiLang) and try to connect it to an existing SQL Server Express installation. If this succeeds, the Add-In is configured to use this database. Otherwise it continues to use the old Access database file.
  

• Fix for "Projectitem unavailable" error after removing a language.
  

• Add exception handler around EnvDTE.FileCodeModel.CodeElements, which can cause the COMException E_UNEXPECTED (aka. Catastrophic failure).
  

• Bug fix in the changes in previous version.
  

• Check constraints in ml_temp_xxx.xml files if a constraint error occurs.
  

• Additional error checking on opening the Add-In's Window.
  
• Registry entry GlobalDBUseConnectString changed to GlobalDBUseConnect for consistency with the setup program (which creates this entry) and with the VB6 Add-In.
  

• Another change to Infragistics support. Specifically scan into properties with the Attribute LocalizationCategory="Data", but not other values ("Appearance" or "Behavior"). This is more restrictive than the previous version.
  
• Fix handling of asp:literal tags with were not created the Add-In itself and contain additional attributes, in particular the Visible attribute.
  

• Bug fix for Infragistics support.
  

• A slightly better fix for Infragistics service release 20091.2023.
  

• Minor (and experimental) fix for Infragistics service release 20091.2023.
  

• Improved constraint check on reading project database from XML file.
  
• Identify menu items (and similar nested controls) by their own control name, rather than the indexed property in the parent control.
  
• New project setting to show menu items (and similar nested controls) as top level controls in the grid, rather than as child nodes under the parent control.
  

• Detect a language added to an Excel file (3-Worksheet format) when the new language is to the right of the comment column and prevent an error on importing the texts for this language.
  

• Check for localizable attribute on the Text property of an ASP tag in base classes.
  

• Incorrect and unnecessary handling of quotes in HTML text removed.
  
• Global database installed to Application Data directory (instead of Program Files).
  

• Minor update to the logic for detecting an unmanaged C++ project based on the Common Language Runtime support option. The options No support and /clr are now both handled as unmanaged code.
  

• Change to method of inserting Asp:Literal tag. Text is now placed between the start and end tags, rather than in the Text attribute.
  

• Option Untranslated Only added to Excel and Open Document export. If you select this option, strings are only exported if at least one translation is missing.
  
• New Single Worksheet Excel export with the features:
  
  • Multiply used strings are exported multiple times
    
  • Location column indicates where the string is used
    
  • Multiple usage column indicates how many times the string is used
    
  • Header is only one row (which is better suited to sorting the worksheet)
    
  • You can sort the worksheet on the String ID column to group multiple occurrences of the same String ID together
    
  • You can sort the worksheet on the Location column to group the texts according to where they are used
    

• Remove (Default) form the language selection list.
  
• Detect the title attribute in the page directive (for ASP content pages used in master pages).
  
• Bug fix updating the current text of ASP attributes from the grid.
  

• Support added for the Title of an ASP page, by defining the meta:resource key in the page directive.
  
• Check out temporary XML files, if they are under source controls (which I do not usually recommend).
  

• Check out XML project database, if it is under source control.
  

• Catch ConstraintException on reading project database from XML file. Remove duplicate records and try to set DataSet.EnforceConstraints to True.
  

• Minor fix to loading assemblies. Assembly.LoadFile replaced with Assembly.LoadFrom.
  

• Attempt to open assembly for referenced web control using Assembly.LoadFile, if Assembly.Load fails. Guess that VS has copied the referenced control into the bin directory.
  

• Fix to handling of web controls registered via the web.config file.
  
• Some restructuring to how assemblies registered via web.config or with a register directive in an ASP page are handled.
  

• Additional logic on closing Excel, to try to ensure that the Excel application is actually closed.
  
• Minor modification to colours used in Excel export, to avoid compatibility error saving to .xls format with Excel 2007.
  

• Additional checking for null reference in the function AddPropertyNodes, after some error reports.
  

• Bug fix in function Remove unused String IDs in the case where the project database is a .mdb file.
  

• Detect additional source code files, in particular code files which are children of other types of files, such as .xsd files.
  
• Additional localization of the Add-In itself.
  

• Fix to Advanced Copy function, to prevent the case where the option specified language is selected (for source or destination), but no language is selected.
  
• Catch AccessViolationException accessing ProjectItem.Properties when opening a designer window.
  

• Handle LANGUAGE LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_SYS_DEFAULT in a .rc file as meaning the neutral culture. (Previously, it generated LCID=0x800, which is not supported by the CultureInfo class.)
  

• Detect ASP Tags using binding syntax, e.g. Text='<%# Bind("title") %>', and treat them as non-localizable.
  

• Comment feature added
  
• Word wrap feature added
  
• Context menu command Goto Line-Break conflict
  
• Bug fix in .rc file scan for LANG_NEUTRAL
  

• Minor change to an error message for unmanaged C++ support.
  
• Updated help for unmaneged C++ support.
  

• Minor fixes to support for unmanaged C++ projects
  
  • Template paths for MlString module were stored incorrectly
    
  • Control ID -1 in dialog resources is treated identically to IDC_STATIC and replaced with a newly generated unique ID
    
  • Symbolic names are generated in the string tables in the .rc file (e.g. IDS_MULTILANG_181 instead of 181), although this is of no particular importance
    

• Minor fix for unmanaged C++ support.
  

• Minor fix to identify properties of Kliksoft controls. At present, this support will only work if you select alternative runtime support.
  

• Bug fix for selecting ASP properties when the grid is in the Flat list mode.
  

• First version with support for unmanaged C++, in particular MFC, projects.
  
• Some modifications to the HTML/ASP scanner:
  
  • All text between starting and ending tags for an ASP control, e.g. a label, is now associated with the text property, and may include formatting tags.
    
  • The formatting tags "ABBR", "ACRONYM", "ADDRESS", "B", "BIG", "CITE", "CODE", "DEL", "DFN", "EM", "FONT", "I", "KBD", "SAMP", "SMALL", "STRONG", "SUB", "SUP", "TT" and "VAR" are now left as part of the static HTML text for translation. This means that a translator will see these tags as part of the text. Previously, all tags were handled as a break between one block of text and the next.
    
  • Text within style tags is ignored.
    
• Goto line button enabled for HTML/ASP source windows.
  
• Goto line functionality added to context menu in source code and HTML/ASP windows (with the text Show in Multi-Language).
  
• Some speed improvements handling source code files.
  
• Expanded state of nodes in the HTML/ASP grid now saved to ml_temp_HtmlScan.xml (and restored after a new scan).
  

• Attempt to fix a NullReferenceException.
  

• Support for ASP server side comments added to ASP/HTML scanner.
  
• Bug fix in search dialog for ASP/HTML grid
  
• Partially implemented support for unmanaged C++ projects. Not yet ready for use!
  

• The default format for the project database is now XML and not an Access database.
  
• Bux fix assigning new StringIDs for the XML format.
  
• Tutorial projects updated to use the XML project database.
  

• Minor fix to saving the list of selected components.
  
• The support for runtime language switching now generates code to remove the handler for the language changed event when a form is disposed.
  
• Project properties dialog now has a second tab, where you can select how the project data is stored:
  
  • Access database, as in all previous versions
    
  • an XML file
    

• Special handling of inherited forms restricted to forms, whose base form is in the same project.
  
• List of selected components for Export to ResX and Rescan selected components saved (to ml_temp_ControlsScan.xml).
  
• More internal changes, moving towards replacing the project database with an XML file.
  

• Fix error opening the Language switching for web projects dialog.
  (Incorrect namespace "System.UI.Web" used instead of "System.Web.UI"!)
  

• Minor fix to the versioning of the project database schema, to correctly update a database from the most recent version for VS 2003, if a project is converted to VS 2005 or VS 2008.
  

• Support for hidden blocks in the source code, delimited by the comments MLHIDEON and MLHIDEOFF.
  
• The dialogs Export to ResX and Import from ResX now have a components list as well as a language list, so that you can select specific forms and usercontrols for the export or import operation.
  

• Minor bug fix on switching the alternative runtime support option, to prevent a (harmless) error dialog.
  

• Modified code generation for the function ml_UpdateControls() to handle inherited forms. The function ml_UpdateControls() in an inherited form now calls the equivalent function in the base form.
  

• Bug fix in source code scan for files with Unix style line breaks (LF only, not CR LF).
  

• Bug fix handling verbatim strings in C#.
  
• Bug fix handling extended properties (e.g. on ToolTip or HelpProvider controls) if the controls scan is performed by scanning the InitializeComponent() function.
  

• Close any resource editor windows before exporting resources.
  
• Automatically select the option "Determine Resource Names" if any Infragistics controls are detected in the project.
  
• New option "Clean up resource strings" to remove existing resource strings before exporting. (Not particularly recommended.)
  
• Option to set Localizable=True removed. This is now always performed for Forms and UserControls which have Localizable=False. (Determining if Localizable=False is faster since version 4.53.0024).
  

• Bug fix in the Filter by Regular Expression dialog. If you searched using an empty string, then an error occurred the next time the dialog was opened.
  

• Bug fix for possible NullReferenceException on attempting to switch the designer language via the language list on the Add-Ins toolbar
  

• First version with support for DevExpress XtraReports.
  

• Fix bug generated on selecting a source code string containing a single inverted comma.
  

• Exception handler added on closing hidden windows.
  

• Fix adding support for runtime language switching for the special case that a control has a static (shared) constructor.
  
• Some additional internal restructuring to the project database access (still preparing for bigger changes).
  

• Fix parameter error in log statment.
  

• Fix to ASP scan for empty attributes, e.g. Text="".
  
• Fix to resource fallback logic for ASP pages, if a rescan is performed whilst preview mode is active (i.e. the language of the designer has been changed).
  
• Special log file option for Excel import removed. The log information is now always stored in the standard log file.
  
• Some additional error checking before updating the project database.
  

• Same change as in 4.54.0002 applied to version 4.53.
  

• ASP scan uses a case insensitive search for the PropertyInfo objects describing the attributes of ASP controls. (The function Type.GetProperty() is case sensitive.)
  
  Note that whilst this fixes a problem with the ASP scan, I haven't tested whether the localized resources are actually detected at runtime, if the case does not exactly match the original case of the property.
  

• Internal restructuring of the access to the project database. At present, this introduces no change in functionality.
  

• Minor fix to assigning resource names to ASP controls.
  

• Some updates to handling multiple selection in the ASP/HTML grid.
  
• Improved logic to relocate the current item, if an ASP file has to be rescanned on the fly.
  

• Bug fix in the Filter with regular expression feature, if the match was against the complete code line and not just the text string. Previously, changes made to a file might not have been saved.
  
• Bug fix in operations on a multiple selection in the ASP/HTML grid. Previously, the operation might have broken off before completion.
  

• Bug fix on selecting multiple texts in the ASP grid. Previously, updates to an ASP file might not have been saved and a single file might have been opened multiple times.
  

• Check for the Localizable attribute on the properties of web controls in all base classes. For example, the HeaderText of a CheckBoxField is inherited from BoundField, which itself overrides the definition in DataControlField. The definition in BoundField does not have the Localizable attribute, but if we look in the base class DataControlField, we find that it does have the localizable attribute.
  
• Updates to the table GeneralIds in the project database. Column SourceCodeString renamed ContainsEscape (to reflect its actual usage). Column DontTranslate removed. Columns ContainsLineBreak and Comment added, but not yet used.
  

• Bug fix in SQL WHERE clause for boolean comparison. Automatic type conversion from boolean to string is language dependent, which led to a localized version of True or False in the SQL statement. This has been replaced with the syntax '<>0' or '=0' which should be safer.
  
• Minor fix to the initialsation of the list of languages, if you switch back and forth between different projects.
  
• More information written to the log file.
  

• Internal restructuring of the access to the project database. At present, this introduces no change in functionality. (Withdrawn.)
  

• Installation modified to specifically require Administrator privileges.
  
• On failing to load an assembly during the ASP scan, an error message is written to the output window, but the error dialog is not shown (might be a temporary change).
  
• Bug fix in the function "Determine Resource Names" required for Infragistics controls.
  
• Only show properties which have the IsBrowsable attribute. This is to avoid a particularly weird problem with the Infragistics UltraNumericEditor and UltraCurrencyEditor.
  
• New function to determine whether a form or UserControl has the localizable attribute, without having to load the designer window, speeds up a couple of operations.
  

• On deleting a translation via the context menu, and if the option "Store all strings in the global database" is selected, then the translation is also removed from the global database.
  

• Support added for ASP components referenced via a Register directive in the ASP file.
  
• Bug fix fetching translations from the global database for ASP pages.
  
• Changes to project database:
  
  • SourceScanResults and ControlsScanResults tables removed.
    The identical information is now saved in the XML files ml_temp_SourceScan.xml and ml_temp_ControlsScan.xml. These files contain temporary information and can be deleted.
    
  • ToolboxBitmapCache table removed.
    The identical information is now saved in a project-independent file in
    \Application Data\MultiLang.Net\
    
• Code generated in the function ml_UpdateControls() modified to support controls from Telerik (defined with local variables in InitializeComponent()).
  

• Additional exception handler on fetching toolbox bitmap. The controls scan should not be aborted if this unimportant feature fails.
  
• New logic on scanning controls via InitializeComponent, to open .resx file without using the designer window. This is almost certainly faster and may be more reliable.
  

• Advanced copy does not copy texts which are the only defined via resource fallback (shown in light grey).
  
• On inserting texts automatically from the global database, a text is not inserted if the identical text is already defined via resource fallback.
  

• Advanced copy function speeded up.
  
• Progress bar logic for controls scan simplified. The table ComponentInfoCache in the project database is now obsolete.
  

• Fix to saving changes to controls, following an Advanced Copy operation, in the case that the designer window for the component was not already open. (Note: The current implementation is intolerably slow, but at least it seems to work.)
  

• Restructuring of the scan of the function InitializeComponent() to handle concatenated strings.
  

• When the Advanced Copy function copies strings to a source code file, and the file has to be opened first, then ensure that it is saved before closing it.
  

• Show source code line in editor window after search or filter with regular expression operation.
  

• Bug fix storing texts to the global database, after changing the identification of an existing language in a project.
  

• Bug fix on importing from 3-Worksheet Excel format. If a string ID was changed in the source code worksheet, but the file was not already open in an editor window, then the source file would be updated, but then closed without saving the change.
  

• Bug fixes handling the drop down project list (due to the new item).
  

• Detect Forms and UserControls implemented with multiple partial classes. Only add the function ml_UpdateControls() to one of them.
  
• Support for custom cultures (new in .NET Framework 2.0). Custom cultures do not have a unique LCID.
  
• item added to the drop down project list.
  
• Translation memory extended, to allow you to search for additional words, not in the original text.
  
• Bug fix counting lines in ASP files, if lines end with LF only (and not CR-LF).
  

• Fix to a bug which could cause an error on adding alternative runtime support.
  
• Update to template file SelectLanguage.vb, required if Option Strict is selected.
  

• Do not use Add_Code subdirectory for the MlString module for Web Application projects.
  

• Copy correct MlString template file for Web Application projects.
  

• New dialog to add the Language-Selection Dialog, in particular with support for VB.NET projects which use the application framework.
  
• New option on Excel or Open Document export to include texts resulting from resource fallback.
  
• New handling of empty strings on Excel or Open Document import. An emtpy string is now interpreted as no translation, rather than an empty translation. If there is no translation, then the resource fallback mechanism will be used.
  
• Bug fix in the AODL library for cells with the table:number-columns-repeated attribute.
  

• ASP scan includes ASP files with no code behind file.
  (Note that the code scan still only scans the code behind file and not code embedded in the ASP file.)
  

• ASP scan handles attributes in single quotes.
  
• Bug fix on hiding empty ASP literal tag.
  
• Support for time limited license key added.
  

• Alternative Runtime Support dialog now detects the Localizable property of Forms or UserControls by reading the .resx files and not via the designer windows. This is faster and more reliable.
  
• Rescan selected components function fixed for ASP components. (Previously it always did a full scan.)
  
• Languages detected in .resx files are now added to the project automatically.
  
• Existing resource texts for ASP files are now always imported, unless there is already a text stored in the project database for the same property.
  

• Automatically import existing resource strings after scanning ASP files.
  (Initial version)
  
• Additional check added, for the case where the project database is referenced by the Visual Studio project file, but has actually been deleted.
  

• Bug fix for Visual Studio 2008. Previously, it was not possible to create a new project if the Add-In was loaded.
  
• Fix for error message on removing a project from the active solution when the Add-In is loaded, but no project has been selected.
  
• MLString template files for Smart Device projects updated.
  
• First version compiled using Visual Studio 2008.
  (This version can still be used with Visual Studio 2005.)
  

• Minor changes for Smart Device projects.
  
  • Alternative Runtime Support is no longer selected automatically. This was a hang over from Visual Studio 2003.
    
  • Bug fix in the template file MlString.vb.
    
  • Broken version template file SelectLanguage.Designer.cs corrected.
    

• Minor bug fix on exporting resource strings for a web project in the OnBuild event when using Visual Studio 2008. Under certain circumstances, Visual Studio 2008 would show a warning, that a file was about to be saved. If you selected cancel, then a COMException would be generated.
  

• New feature to import existing localization, which searches for function calls which load resource strings, imports the resource strings into the project database and converts the function calls into calls to ml_string().
  

• New templates for the MLRuntime project for Visual Studio 2008.
  
• The Add-In configuration for Visual Studio 2008 is now stored in a separate registry key (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Jollans\MultiLang2008)
  

• Export/Import as OpenOffice spreadsheet in the for OpenDocument .ods format. This feature uses the library AODL.
  
• 4.52.0001 is just an update to the help and the localization of the new dialogs.
  

• Bug fix detecting whether the MLRuntime project present in the solution, for the Runtime Language Switching feature.
  

• Bug fix scanning non-ASP files in ASP projects.
  

• Web Application projects are now recognized correctly.
  
• Informative error message if the Add-In is unable to open the Global Translations Database.
  
• Improved error checking in the case that the Global Translations Database is not available.
  

• Bug fix, for an error which caused the Localizable property to be reset to False after exporting resources for a Form or UserControl.
  

• Bug fix, for an error which caused resource strings for properties which are not translated to be excluded from even the original (non-localized) resource file.
  

• The Add-In no longer adds an ID attribute to ASP tags.
  
• If an ASP tag has an ID attribute, then the Add-In will use the same name for the resourcekey. Otherwise it will generate a resourekey in the form ML_nnnn. In particular, this applies to tags such as ListItem or TreeNode, which do not allow an ID attribute.
  
• The Add-In detects which ASP tags have a localizable Text attribute. Tags which do not have a localizable Text attribute cannot be selected in the grid.
  

• Resource strings are now referenced using the meta:resourcekey tag. No additional code must be generated to initialise the fields.
  
• New integrated scan of static HTML text and ASP controls. The results are presented in a single HTML/ASP tab.
  
• New HTML scan is faster and more reliable.
  
  • The ASP scan is performed by parsing the HTML source file and not (as previously) via the designer windows. This is significantly faster.
    
  • The ASP scan now handles template elements, for example in FormView or MultiView controls, which were previously not detected.
    
• Static HTML text is converted to an asp:Literal tag, so that the text can be read from a resource string. This replaces the previous method with a Span tag.
  

• New scan for resource names can be selected in the Export to ResX dialog. This provides improved support for controls from Infragistics.
  

• a completely new scan for texts in the HTML source, in addition to texts which are properties of ASP.NET controls
  
• an improved scan for properties of ASP controls
  
• a new Language Selection Web Control, which can be added to your project
  
• support for switching languages on an ASP.NET web page
  

• translation memory to show existing translations of similar texts
  
• multiple selection in the grids, so that multiple items can be hidden or selected for translation as a single operation
  
• user interface in French
  
• improved support for Smart Device projects in Visual Studio 2005
  

• Internal restructuring improves reliability
  
• Version 3 has no new features.
  

• Filter using regular expressions.
  

• New logic for the limitation in the unlicensed version (up to 50 translations from the global database, up to 100 translations in total).
  Naturally, these limitations do not apply to a licensed version.
  

• Some limited support for ASP.NET projects added.
  

• Global database of commonly used translations
  

• Structured three-worksheet Excel Import/Export
  

• Template file MlString.vb updated to handle solution names containing spaces.
  

• Speed improvement during source code scan.
  

• Runtime Language Switching extended to C++ projects.
  

• First version with support for Smart Device projects.
  

• Support for Runtime Language Switching.
  Change the language of the user interface at any time when the application is running.
  
• Quick initialisation of the grids from the project database.
  The Add-In can now reinitialize the two grids based on information cached in the project database. This means that it is not necessary to rescan the project each time the Add-In is used. You can enable this feature by turning off the automatic rescan in the project properties dialog.
  
• Hide properties in the controls tab.
  Properties listed in the controls tab may now be hidden. This is similar to mechanism for the source code tab (but at present not identical). Toggle the hidden state by clicking on the sun or moon icon. Show or hide 'hidden' properties via the "+-" drop down menu.
  Hide or show all properties with a given name, e.g. AccessibleDescription, via a context menu on the sun or moon icon in the controls tab.
  
• Select individual properties for translation.
  New check boxes in the controls tab allow individual properties to be selected for translation.
  Enable or disable translation of all properties with a given name, e.g. AccessibleDescription, via a context menu on the check box in the controls tab.
  
• New commands in the expand/collapse menu (for the controls tab only) to expand the tree to 1, 2, 3 or 4 levels.
  The expanded state of the nodes in the controls grid is now saved in the project database and restored when you restart the Add-In.
  
• Quick Export to resources.
  Using this option, the Add-In stores strings directly to the resource file, bypassing the controls. This may not work with all (third party) controls.
  (Starting with version 3, this is the only supported method).
  
• Handling of escape sequences in C# and C++ strings.
  
• Property filtering technique used to determine which properties will be read from the resource file. Properties which are not selected will not be read from resources. (Later removed).
  
• New command to remove all calls to ml_string() in the tools menu.
  

• Bug fix adding language containing inverted comma (e.g. People's republic of China)
  
• Source code scan now excludes the function InitializeComponent, rather than attempting to exclude the region of code generated by the forms designer.
  

• New commands "Goto next conflict" and "Goto next missing translation" added to the context menu.
  

• Font selection dialog now supports font size. Both font name and font size are stored on a per language basis.
  

• Bug fix for entering Asian characters, in particular Thai.
  
• Automatic source code scan can be disabled via the (new) project properties dialog. The results of the most recent scan are then loaded from the project database
  
• Bug fix for crash scanning very large projects
  

• Bug fixes in Search function.
  
• Controls scan logic updated to handle the Infragistics UltraWinToolbar control.
  

• Constraint added to project database to prevent duplicate translations for a single string ID and language ID.
  

• 'public class ml' changed 'internal class ml' in the template file MlString.cs.
  
• Character literals '\"' and '"' are now ignored.
  
• Error dialog shown if project database is read only.
  
• User interface disabled during long operations.
  

• Component VSUserControlHost.dll replaced with MLUserControlHost.dll, to fix initialisation problems on some systems. No change to the functionality.
  

• Support for Windows Forms Applications in C++ added
  (Visual Studio .NET 2003 only)
  

• Correction to handling of \" embedded in a C# string.
  

• Similar change at additional places in the program, to avoid an InvalidCastException with Components which are not "Components".
  

• Bug fix to handle forms containing "components" which do not inherit from Component, for example a DataSet. This error could be generated by the GridEx sample from Janus Systems.
  

• Minor fix to a problem exporting strings to resources, which occasionally caused languages to get mixed up.
  

• Error selecting "Advanced Copy" from context menu in title bar of grids fixed.
  

• C# support added
  

• Problems on first use of the Add-In with the error message COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW can not be used and subsequent associated errors fixed.
  

• First public version of the Multi-Language Add-In for Visual Studio .NET, with support for Visual Basic applications.