Using MAT for RESX to XLIFF conversion

How To Use Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) for RESX localization

Install MAT

The first step is to download and install MAT 4.0 from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MultilingualAppToolkit.MultilingualAppToolkit-18308 (or directly from Visual Studio by using Tools->Extensions and Updates.

Once MAT is installed, you will have a new menu item under your Tools menu - "Mutlilingual App Toolkit".

You will use that menu to enable MAT in new projects. You should not need to use it unless you are adding a new project to LibMan (or starting a completely different product/project).

Enable MAT in your projects (already done for LibMan)

Prior to enabling MAT, you need

1. Add Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs if it doesn't exist in your project already
2. Add [assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguage("en")] entry to the AssemblyInfo.cs

If you don't do that, you'll get Project 'Microsoft.Web.LibraryInstaller.Contracts' was not enabled - the project's source culture could not be determined. in the Multilingual App Toolkit output window.

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