Make your resources type safe and IntelliSense friendly

.NETFramework v4.5+

Just copy ums.exe to a folder in your path

• -t or -target or first argument: the output file name or location (e.g. MyResources.cs). If not specified, the console stdout is used.
• -s or -source: the base directory to scan for files. If not specified, the current working directory is used.
• -n or -namespace: the namespace for the resources class.
• -i or -include: the patterns of files and folders to should be included relative to the base directory.
• -e or -exclude: the patterns of files and folders to should be excluded relative to the base directory.

The pattern matching style can be exact or partial, using * syntax (e.g. file.ext, folder*, folder\subfolder*, *file*, *.ext)

Sample folder structure:

• description.txt
• images
  • image.bmp
  • image.gif
• styles
  • main.css
  • colors.css
  • headers.css
• scripts
  • main.js

Scan all files and folders in the current location:

C:\demo>ums.exe

public partial class Resources
{
    public const string description_txt = @"description.txt";
    public const string imagesFolder = @"images\";
    public partial class images
    {
        public const string image_bmp = @"images\image.bmp";
        public const string image_gif = @"images\image.gif";
    }
    public const string scriptsFolder = @"scripts\";
    public partial class scripts
    {
        public const string main_js = @"scripts\main.js";
    }
    public const string stylesFolder = @"styles\";
    public partial class styles
    {
        public const string colors_css = @"styles\colors.css";
        public const string headers_css = @"styles\headers.css";
        public const string main_css = @"styles\main.css";
    }
}

Specify target, namespace, include and exclude patterns:

C:\demo>ums.exe MyResources -namespace MyNamespace -include images* -exclude *.gif

namespace MyNamespace
{
    public partial class Resources
    {
        public const string imagesFolder = @"images\";
        public partial class images
        {
            public const string image_bmp = @"images\image.bmp";
        }
    }
}

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This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

• Hat tip to anyone who's code was used
• Vapour in the Alley for the command line arguments parser
• Adriano Repetti for the PathAddBackslash method