Creating a Label file
Most projects have some kind of user interface, and therefore we need to display text to the user other than the field names. The best practice method to do this is to use a label file. The label file contains a language specific dictionary of label IDs and the translation.
Standard elements tend to have the legacy label IDs of an @ symbol, followed by a three-digit label ID and a number. This format worked well for the past 15 years, but the prefix was potentially limiting, especially to aid ISVs. Labels are no longer restricted to three digits, which helps Microsoft attain one of its goals of making ISV add-ons easier to write, maintain and adopt.
The choice of how many and which packages need a label file depends ...
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