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Localizing a WPF application

I know, Google knows so much about this, yet still, no clear and simple step-by-step guide. So here it goes:

• Download LocBaml tool here
• Compile it and get the LocBaml.exe
• Open your project file with Notepad.
• Add the following there: <UICulture>en-US</UICulture> under all <PropertyGroup> tags (for all build configs that is).
• In your XAML files add x:Uid="someUniqueUid" to any element you want to localize.
• Build your project.
• Navigate your explorer to the build folder - you will see that it has a new subfolder called en-US. Inside you will find a file - YourProject.resources.dll
• Copy the binary of your project (e.g. YourProject.exe), LocBaml.exe and any referenced project binaries into this en-US folder.
• Open a command line prompt in this folder (under Windows seven you can press [Shift] + Right click and choose the command prompt window from the context menu).
• Run the following: locbaml /parse YourProject.resources.dll /out:YourProject.txt - a human-readable text file will appear in the folder.
• Edit the text file (translate the values in it). Excel is your best option - open the file from Excel menu and it will ask you if you want to treat tab symbols as text separators).
• Run the following after you localized the text file: locbaml /generate /trans:YourProject.txt /out:..\ru-RU /cul:ru-RU YourProject.resources.dll (replace ru-RU with the culture you are localizing into).
• Now all you have to do is to set the CultureInfo for your application thread like this:

var cultureInfo = new CultureInfo("ru-RU");
System.Threading.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cultureInfo;
System.Threading.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = cultureInfo;

And you are done. You app should be localized now!