Advanced Installer has the ability to build VSIX packages in various languages.
Selecting additional build languages
Check the check-box button next to the desired language in the tree. For each language a separate VSIX package will be built with the code page set to the default ANSI code page of that language.
The language in which the project was created in the Start Page is set as default. Any build must have at least one language. The languages are grouped by their relation.
Each language increases the package size with about 40 - 50
Kilobytes (depending on the strings it contains).
When the package is installed the language will be selected according to the regional settings on the target computer.
Filtering visible build languages
By default, only selected languages and languages with translations are showed. You can choose to only see the selected languages or all the possible languages (that is the ones without translation as well).
If you select a language without translations build in, Advanced Installer
will try to get the translation strings from the closest related
language. This may be or may not be what you want. The Neutral
language (ASCII US English) is used as the parent of all languages and
generic fall back.
Translations
When translating a package in another language, Advanced Installer will look for the corresponding strings in one of the specified translation dictionaries. You can add more dictionaries to the project in the Translations section.
If you select at least one additional build language (other than the default project language), two abilities will become available:
- Specifying which parts of the project will be translated in the Localization Options Dialog.
- Generating a dictionary containing just the strings that need to be translated into the build languages. Only the project parts selected for translation in the Localization Options Dialog will be included in the generated dictionary.