Microsoft KB Archive/200069

= INFO: Russian and Portuguese MFC Resource Files Not Available =

Article ID: 200069

Article Last Modified on 8/12/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 3
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q200069



SUMMARY
Localized MFC resources are available for most major international languages; however, MFC Wizards are not available for certain countries. Furthermore, the corresponding localization resource-only DLLs are not redistributable. It is possible, however, to target other national languages.



MORE INFORMATION
For example, the Portuguese and Russian versions of MFC42 are not available in Visual Studio. Only the following languages are supported for MFC42 DLLs at the present time:


 * Chinese (Simplified)
 * Chinese (Traditional)
 * English
 * French
 * German
 * Italian
 * Japanese
 * Korean
 * Spanish

The development team is currently considering supporting other languages; if that is the case, this article will be updated. Microsoft recommends that developers use the English version for languages that are not included in the above list. Other national languages can still be targeted, because the MFC42loc.dlls for those languages have been installed with updated localized target systems (that is, after installing the latest service packs under Microsoft Windows NT or the latest update to Microsoft Internet Explorer or Microsoft Office, under Windows 95, or Windows 98). After being created, those resources should be marked with the appropriate language (and the strings translated as needed). Some manual editing of the resource compiler *.RC file might be needed in some cases.

Additional query words: kbDSupport, mfc, russian, portuguese

Keywords: kbinfo kbintl kbintldev kbresource KB200069

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