Localization Management Toolkit (beta)

A colleague and I wrote an article describing a toolkit we developed. This toolkit automates the management process of resources for localization with .NET 2.0. The article made it to the home page in DevX as featured article.
The permalink is here
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/33422
We are both eager to know if someone is using a similar tool or plans to use this Toolkit.
Thanks!

More on Oracle Client and the different providers for .NET

Remember next time you write a web service or DAL class that connects to an Oracle database. If using the version 1.1 of the Framework and the Microsoft Oracle Provider, this provider has a known bug when the service name is longer than 16 characters:

The exception that you will get when trying to open the connection is:
ORA-00162: external dbid length xx is greater than maximum (16)

more on the topic can be found here


The workarounds are:
1) putting the whole tnsnames.ora entry in the DataSource entry of your connection string or
2) use Oracle's data provider (ODP.NET)
or
3) set the TNSADMIN environment variable to point to a different directory
where you keep a modified tnsnames.ora file.


more on the troubles with the Oracle Native Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) whenever i have a chance to write again...