Strongly Typed Resources

VS2005 has many improvements over VS2003, even if it is not that stable. One of the improvements we've been taking advantage of lately is the "strongly typed resources".

Previously (VS2003) to localise all strings they were placed in a resources file and then called in 'by name' - which led to typos, unused strings and other nightmares. We even wrote a program to cross-reference the use of strings and their existence.

In VS2005 if you enable Strongly Typed Resources on your strings they can be called in like members of a class - a big improvement. Oh, and the same applies to bitmaps and other resources.