"Generate Local Resource" also Rewrite Telerik Tags

[Dan]

In order to create a new Local Resource file (RESX), I navigate to the Designer, and use the Tools --> Generate Local Resource option.  

The problem is that many of my telerik tags are getting rewritten during this process.  Is there a way to stop this?  

No standard ASP controls demonstrate this behavior - so I am wonder if this is something on the Telerik side?  

We do not use the designer view - except for this purpose - and I understand that it may just be inserting default attributes and tags that we did not write - but this adds to our code, and sometimes messes things up.

Is there a way to disable this - or a workaround?

For example, this:

<telerik:RadTextBox runat="server" ID="tCurrentAgency"  Width="200px" ReadOnly="True" SkinID="defaultText">
</telerik:RadTextBox>

becomes this:

<telerik:RadTextBox runat="server" ID="tCurrentAgency"
    Width="200px" ReadOnly="True" SkinID="defaultText" LabelCssClass="" LabelWidth="64px" meta:resourcekey="tCurrentAgencyResource1" Resize="None">
    <EmptyMessageStyle Resize="None" />
    <ReadOnlyStyle Resize="None" />
    <FocusedStyle Resize="None" />
    <DisabledStyle Resize="None" />
    <InvalidStyle Resize="None" />
    <HoveredStyle Resize="None" />
    <EnabledStyle Resize="None" />
</telerik:RadTextBox>

[Dan]

And this:

<telerik:RadDatePicker runat="server" ID="dtStopDate" SkinID="defaultDate" Width="125" />

becomes this:

<telerik:RadDatePicker runat="server" ID="dtStopDate" SkinID="defaultDate" Width="125px" Culture="en-US" meta:resourcekey="dtStopDateResource1" >
    <Calendar EnableWeekends="True" FastNavigationNextText="&lt;&lt;" UseColumnHeadersAsSelectors="False" UseRowHeadersAsSelectors="False">
    </Calendar>
    <DateInput DateFormat="M/d/yyyy" DisplayDateFormat="M/d/yyyy" LabelWidth="64px" Width="">
        <EmptyMessageStyle Resize="None" />
        <ReadOnlyStyle Resize="None" />
        <FocusedStyle Resize="None" />
        <DisabledStyle Resize="None" />
        <InvalidStyle Resize="None" />
        <HoveredStyle Resize="None" />
        <EnabledStyle Resize="None" />
    </DateInput>
    <DatePopupButton CssClass="" HoverImageUrl="" ImageUrl="" />
</telerik:RadDatePicker>

[Maria Ilieva]

Hello Dan,

The presented behavior is unexpected and it appears to be an issue with our controls. i will froward this case to our dev team so that we could revise our controls behavior in case of localization designer modifications and do the needful to fix this issue.

Thank you for reporting this case.


Regards,
Maria Ilieva
Telerik

 

 

[Dan]

Just curious... 18+ months on if a solution has been found to this problem?  Or a workaround?  

[Maria Ilieva]

Hi,

Unfortunately we haven't made improvement on the designer of our controls as the last resales were mostly pointed to the mobile features of the controls. I will increase the priority of this request so that our development team can to their best to investigate it as soon as possible.
Excuse us for any inconvenience this behavior may lead.

Regards,
Maria Ilieva
Telerik

[Ian]

Hi,

Any advancement on this issue or suggested workaround? I am finding this a real problem using Generate Local Resource in VS 2017.

A lot of extra attributes are being added or removed from tags and child tags added to controls. (especially RadDatePicker).

It makes such a mess of my markup code that it's almost better to add all the required tags manually.