Resource file (.resx) comparison

[trisuglow]

For my multi-language application I need to be able to compare .resx files. I have a number of forms that should differ only in that their resource files should have text in different languages. I want to check that the positions of all the controls and form dimensions remain constant between languages.

Is there a freeware tool available to do this? Has anybody found a smart way of doing automated comparisons using MSWord's compare feature?

[MrPolite]

hmm I got a little confused
what exactly are you trying to compare? the data in the resource file? or the resource files themselves?

[trisuglow]

It's the data in the files that I want to compare.

The problem I had was that having created a foreign language .resx for my form I found that some of the controls' posisitons were different in the different languages.

The solution I came up with in the end was to go through the foreign language .resx file and delete all the data that wasn't to do with strings. (.NET picks up data from the default language .resx if it can't find it in the local language one).