Does anyone know where IE 5.5/6.0 localized resources are stored?   

Hi,

We're trying to localize an IE plug-in that relies on the exact text of 
certain IE menu items and buttons (the IDs used for menu items and toolbar 
buttons aren't constants in IE for some reason, so we had to fall back on 
string matching to locate these).

Identifying the proper strings is easy to do in English; just look at the 
menu item and copy the exact string into a string constant in our code.

We need to get these menu and button strings for each language that we plan 
to support, however.  We could just install each different language version, 
and look at the menu items and buttons, but... for languages such as 
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc., it's very difficult to find the exact 
Unicode characters based upon what you see on the screen.

It would be best if we could just extract the Unicode strings by loading the 
executable or DLL into Visual Studio as resources.  Unfortunately, so far 
we've been unable to locate the DLL or executable where these resources are 
stored.

Does anyone know where these menu/string resources are, or how I can track 
them down?

Any help much appreciated!

-Scott

date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:59:49 GMT   author:   Scott Smith

Re: Does anyone know where IE 5.5/6.0 localized resources are stored?   

Scott Smith  wrote:
> It would be best if we could just extract the Unicode strings by
> loading the executable or DLL into Visual Studio as resources.

Look at c:\windows\system32\shdoclc.dll . I believe it is what you are 
looking for.
-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
overhead. -- RFC 1925

date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:13:33 -0400   author:   Igor Tandetnik

Re: Does anyone know where IE 5.5/6.0 localized resources are stored?   

That's it!  Thanks Igor!

-Scott


"Igor Tandetnik"  wrote in message 
news:etgv7SKaGHA.1220@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Scott Smith  wrote:
>> It would be best if we could just extract the Unicode strings by
>> loading the executable or DLL into Visual Studio as resources.
>
> Look at c:\windows\system32\shdoclc.dll . I believe it is what you are 
> looking for.
> -- 
> With best wishes,
>    Igor Tandetnik
>
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not 
> necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to 
> land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly 
> overhead. -- RFC 1925
>
>

date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:57:00 GMT   author:   Scott Smith