localizegen

Microsoft.Extensions.Localization Strongly Typed Class Generator

Generates strongly typed classes for resources to be used by IStringLocalizer from Microsoft.Extensions.Localizer This is very much adapted (and a bunch copied) code from https://github.com/VocaDB/ResXFileCodeGenerator

This directory structure:

• MyViewModel.cs
• MyViewModel.resx
• MyViewModel.fr-ca.rex
• Folder1\FolderViewModel.cs
• Folder1\FolderViewModel.resx
• Folder1\FolderViewModel.fr-ca.resx

Will generate:

• MyViewModelLocalized.g.cs (RootNamespace.MyViewModelLocalized)
• Folder1.FolderViewModelLocalized.g.cs (RootNamespace.Folder1.FolderViewModelLocalized)
• ServiceCollections.g.cs

To use this:

1. Install Microsoft.Extensions.Localization
2. Install Shiny.Extensions.Localization.Generator
3. In your MauiProgram.cs, do the following

builder.Services.AddLocalization();
builder.Services.AddStronglyTypedLocalizations();

4. Now add an .resx file to your project that matches the name of class (ie. ViewModel, Controller, Service, etc).
5. Now inject the strongly typed classes

public class MyViewModel
{
    public MyViewModel(MyViewModelLocalized localizer) // same namespace and class name with "Localized" suffix
        => this.Localizer = localizer;

    public MyViewModelLocalized Localizer { get; }
}

6.Now bind (xaml intellisense will pick it up)

<Label Text="{Binding Localizer.MyKey}" />

[!WARNING] If the "class" beside the resource does not exist, a compile error will occur with the generated code

Generate Classes with Internal Accessor

<PropertyGroup>
    <GenerateLocalizersInternal>True</GenerateLocalizersInternal>
</PropertyGroup>