How To Get Localized Microsoft Components for Your Applications (221788)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Basic Learning Edition for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Learning Edition for Windows 6.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows 6.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows 6.0
This article was previously published under Q221788

SUMMARY

When you need to distribute a localized version of an application developed using Visual Basic, you need to know which localized files need to be added to your localized distribution package, and where are they located.

MORE INFORMATION

If a Microsoft component has localized resources, these are stored in a separate resource DLL for each language. You can find a list of resource DLLs (often called satellite DLLs) in the component's dependency (.dep) file. To view the contents of a .dep file, open it with a text editor such as Notepad as a normal text file.

Once you know which satellite DLLs you need, you can download them from the Web. The easiest way to do this is as follows:
  1. Open the dependency file for an ActiveX control. This example uses comctl32.dep.
  2. Determine the location of your language's information. This example uses German.
  3. In the Localized Dependencies section you will find:

    • The name of the satellite DLL: CmCtlDE.dll
    • The cab file where it is stored: CmCtlDE.cab
    • The URL of the cab file: http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vb6
  4. Point your Web browser to the URL you create by concatenating the URL and cab file above, with a forward slash ( / ) between them:

    http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vb6/CmCtlDE.cab

    This allows you to download the cab file to your machine.
  5. Once you have downloaded the cab file, you can extract the file you need and add it to your distribution package.

REFERENCES

For additional information about extracting a file from a cab file, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

198038 Useful Tools for Package and Deployment Issues
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/1/2004
Keywords:kbhowto kbLocalization KB221788
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