Book Review - .NET Internationalization

Custom Resource Managers
Out of the box, .NET 1.1 and 2.0 provide their own resource managers – System.Resources.ResourceManager and System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager. This chapter explains all that is required to build your own. Why would you want to do this? Well, if you do not wish to use .resx files, writing your own resource manager to read a custom file format (or use a database) is one way to avoid such files. This is a fairly heavy going chapter littered with code snippets, command-line statements and screenshots. Luckily, the author provides us with examples of custom resource managers, including one that demonstrates how a custom resource manager might make use of a SQL Server database. At 80+ pages long, this is one of the more advanced chapters.