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Christopher Miller, Cross-platform Localization for Native Mobile Apps with Xamarin, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2466-3_3

3. Working with Multilingual App Toolkit

Christopher Miller1 

(1)Slingerlands, New York, USA

I have a thing for tools.

—Tim Allen

Multilingual App Toolkit

Microsoft has a very handy tool for working with language translation files: the Multilingual App Toolkit, or MAT for short. It is an extension for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015.

The MAT provides the following functionality:

  • It integrates with Visual Studio and becomes part of the workflow. It adds and manages translation files using the standard Visual Studio IDE. It works almost any Visual Studio project that uses .resx resource files.

  • It provices ...

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