VisualSetup allows you export all messages resources, including the setup messages, string table's entries, dialogs' captions, captions of dialogs' controls and dialogs' variables into a friendly single text file. This file can be distributed to a translator that will return with the translated version of your messages resources' files. Then, you can import this messages resources' file to your setup project.

The feature of importing and exporting messages resources is very useful, since the people that will translate your messages does not need to have VisualSetup do to that.

 

To export the messages resources to a file, select Messages > Export Messages' Resource menu command. Select the file you want VisualSetup to create and the Setup Language you want to export. Also, you have the option to export an Unicode text file, mark this option when you are using Unicode characters in your messages' resources, or when this messages resource's file will be translated to a language that needs the Unicode characters, like Japanese and Chinese.

 

To import the messages resources from a file, select Messages > Import Messages' Resource menu command. Select the file you want to import and the Setup Language that will be updated with the strings of the messages resource's file.