im currently working on software testing field with focus on localization. im under the product maintenance department and responsible for delivering hotfixes and rollups (service pack) for the Japanese, Spanish, French and German. with our testing process, i have to check on the resource strings and message tables of the localized modules; and have to avoid any regressions like strings getting reverted to english strings due to integration or build issues. formerly, we used to check on the resource strings manually by using Visual Studio or Resource Hacker. however, this had become time-consuming and pretty require great amount of effort on the tester; having all modules opened and checked one by one. this is where the search for alternative tools started.
my requirement was that i needed a command line (console)-based program which i can specify the binary path and it would print all the strings and message table resources inside it if there's one. i was able to find one but only dumps the string resources and not the message table. i gave up later on and started creating the tool on my own. i called it smrdump - string & message resource dumper.
details:
smrdump.exe is a command-line program which uses Win32 APIs for enumerating the resource libraries. since the product of our company only are available in English, Spanish, German, French and Japanese, these are the languages currently are supported by the tool. if the optional language parameter char is not specified, the default language will also be dump. default language will depend on the system where you are running the program. i will post the separate version which is language-independent and will dump all resources on all available languages.
download location:
you can get the smrdump binary here: SMRDump.exe
usage:
$>smrdump [binaryFilePath] [optionalLanguageParameter: E,J,S,G,F]
example:
here's a example dump i took using one of Citrix binaries.
dumping resources for all languages:
$>smrdump "C:\Program Files\Citrix\System32\resource\ja\ctxsbxmsgUI.dll"
***********************************************************************
* [module]: C:\Program Files\Citrix\System32\resource\ja\ctxsbxmsgUI.dll
************************************************************************
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[language]: 0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[message block:1 size:1520]
1 分離環境レジストリ イベント
2 分離環境ファイル イベント
3 分離環境オブジェクト イベント
4 Windows インストーラの試行
-2147450879 分離環境 %1 のアプリケーションがサービス %2 をインストールしようとしました。このサービスは使用可能になりません。
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[language]: 1033
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[message block:1 size:2516]
1 Isolation Environment Registry Event
2 Isolation Environment File Event
3 Isolation Environment Object Event
4 Windows Installer Attempt
-2147450879 An isolated application in isolation environment %1 attempted to install service %2. The service will not be available.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[language]: 1041
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[message block:1 size:1520]
1 分離環境レジストリ イベント
2 分離環境ファイル イベント
3 分離環境オブジェクト イベント
4 Windows インストーラの試行
-2147450879 分離環境 %1 のアプリケーションがサービス %2 をインストールしようとしました。このサービスは使用可能になりません。
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[language]: 1031
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[message block:1 size:3004]
1 Isolierte Umgebung - Registrierungsereignis
2 Isolierte Umgebung - Dateiereignis
3 Isolierte Umgebung - Objektereignis
4 Windows Installer-Versuch
-2147450879 Eine isolierte Anwendung in der isolierten Umgebung '%1' versuchte, den Dienst '%2' zu installieren. Der Dienst steht nicht zur Verfugung.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[language]: 1036
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[message block:1 size:2808]
1 Evenement de registre d'environnement d'isolation
2 Evenement de fichier d'environnement d'isolation
3 Evenement d'objet d'environnement d'isolation
4 Tentative Windows Installer
-2147450879 Une application isolee dans l'environnement %1 a essaye d'installer le service %2. Le service ne sera pas disponible.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[language]: 1034
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[message block:1 size:2812]
1 Suceso del registro del entorno de aislamiento
2 Suceso de archivo del entorno de aislamiento
3 Suceso de objeto del entorno de aislamiento
4 Intento de Windows Installer
-2147450879 Una aplicacion aislada en el entorno de aislamiento %1 trato de instalar el servicio %2. El servicio no se encontrara disponible.
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dumping resources for specific language:
$>smrdump "C:\Program Files\Citrix\System32\resource\ja\ctxsbxmsgUI.dll" J
***********************************************************************
* [module]: C:\Program Files\Citrix\System32\resource\ja\ctxsbxmsgUI.dll
************************************************************************
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[language]: 1041
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[message block:1 size:1520]
1 分離環境レジストリ イベント
2 分離環境ファイル イベント
3 分離環境オブジェクト イベント
4 Windows インストーラの試行
-2147450879 分離環境 %1 のアプリケーションがサービス %2 をインストールしようとしました。このサービスは使用可能になりません。
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caveat:
there are some module which might be loading other modules at runtime. sometimes, if these kind of modules cannot find and load these necessary binaries, smrdump won't be able to handle the errors like invalid access.
for questions and suggestions:
if you have any questions or any suggestions, just add a comment on this post.
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