RGreatEx is a productivity plug-in for JetBrain ReSharper. Once installed, it adds a set of new refactorings and coding assistance features to Visual Studio, allowing developers to localize a project faster and more conveniently than before, improve coding with new time-saving abilities and generate safer code. RGreatEx integrates into Visual Studio seamlessly and works with it without errors. Supported languages are C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET.

The power of RGreatEx lies in its pain-free way to add localization support to a .NET application. This can be achieved thanks to the new refactorings, such as “Move to resource” and “Rename resource”. The tool can automatically analyze strings, resources and their usage, detect strings that should be extracted to resources and resources that haven’t been localized yet. The use of RGreatEx helps to save up to 95% of development time as there’s no need to re-write the entire code to integrate localization support to a project.

Adding localization support requires little efforts. Simply select a string and choose “Move string to resource” from the quick fixes, select a resource file where you want to extract and refactoring settings. Then you copy your resource file to a resource file for localization – for instance if you have Resources.resx you need to make a copy with the name – Resources.xx-xx.resx (where xx-xx – is your specific culture). The final step is to translate values in Resources.xx-xx.resx by using the Translate resource quick fix.

In addition to localization, RGreatEx will help you make coding much easier and enjoyable. You’ll be able to manipulate strings on the fly thanks to the set of new context actions and highlighting options and produce safer resx code. Unique to RGreatEx is an opportunity to select strings from a file, folder, or a project, choose a resource file and keys for the selected strings and move them to resources – all in one go.