Localizing Your DevExpress-powered .NET App – Complete the Survey to Help Shape Our Development Strategy
As you may recall from my recent blog post, our Unified Component Installer will soon include an option to install localized resources for certain languages (DE, ES, JA, RU). We will not install these resources by default – you can install them at your discretion. NOTE: based on actual usage, we may completely remove these localization resources from the Unified Component Installer in favor of the DevExpress Localization Service.
If you localize your apps OR plan to create multilingual apps...
We hope to validate a few more hypotheses about our Localization Service, Unified Component Installer, overall localization quality, and ways to translate strings in general. To help us finalize our development strategy in this regard, please complete the survey below. Your feedback is crucial.
UPDATE: New Localization Tool in v25.2+
You can try/evaluate the new DevExpress localization platform (designed to replace our existing online service and IDE-based localization wizards). This new tool introduces enhanced collaboration capabilities, easier resource navigation/management, AI-powered translation services, support for multiple DevExpress products/platforms, and much more.
https://github.com/DevExpress/Localization (Available as Available as Community Technology Preview (CTP) in v25.2)
Key features:
- Simpler localization string management
Use advanced data shaping capabilities available in our Data Grid control to find resources, filter or group data, and more. - Enhanced translation consistency and coverage
Locate duplicate strings, find inconsistent translations using a built-in localization validator, review context information, and run batch operations. - Multiple export types
You can export translations as satellite assemblies, NuGet packages, a single merged RESX file for multiple products (replaces hundreds of assemblies), or JSON files for JS/TS-based products. - New collaboration capabilities
You can now use change tracking, reviews, import/export capabilities, and built-in backups. All DevExpress product localization resources are available on GitHub. You can either use our Windows-based tool, modify your translations directly in RESX, or build your own tool. - Support for multiple products/platforms
The current version already supports numerous DevExpress UI libraries (WinForms, WPF, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, Reports, Dashboard, XAF). We plan to add support for .NET MAUI, DevExtreme, and VCL UI Controls in future release cycles. - AI-powered resource translation
Integrate your favorite AI service into our new Localization client.
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Thanks,
Dennis
Principal Product Manager
dennis@devexpress.com
