Visual Studio 2015 Multi-Language feature makes changes not only in text

Question

I use two languages in Visual Basic 2015: English and German. Studio creates resource files with strings of translation text: *Ge.resx and *En.resx.

Problem: when I switch language, changing not only the text, but the location of controls, sizes, their backgrounds image. How do I prevent this? Is some property of control? I want in all languages all controls have same properties (size, location, images), except text.

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I apologize if this topic has already been and sorry for my english. I could not think how to describe the problem in a few words to effectively use the search.

I can only imagine that happening when the `AutoSize` property is set to `true`. — jmcilhinney, Sep 07 '15 at 06:06
Even then, that should only affect the size. Changing background images seems very odd. Where are the images coming from? — jmcilhinney, Sep 07 '15 at 06:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

Changing the location and size of controls is part of the .Net localization process as what may fit on a regular sized button (for example) in one language may not fit when another language is used. A word in one language may be only 5 characters long but in a different language could be 15 characters long.

When you change the form to be Localizable, a new resource file is created for each language which holds the language specific data.(You need to "Show All Files" to see them)

For example, here is a form with Danish and Afrikaans language files.

You can edit these files if you want to remove the sizing parts of them.

This question details the steps another user took which may help you.

Proper localization of a WinForms application

Visual Studio 2015 Multi-Language feature makes changes not only in text

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