Adding Formatting or Special Characters to a String
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To add formatting or special characters to a string
Open the string table by double-clicking its icon in Resource View.
Note
If your project doesn't already contain an .rc file, please see Creating a New Resource Script File.
Select the string you want to modify.
In the Properties Window, add any of the standard escape sequences listed below to the text in the Caption box, and press ENTER.
To get this Type this New line \n Carriage return \r Tab \t Backslash (\) \\ ASCII character \ddd (octal notation) Alert (bell) \a
Note
The String editor does not support the full set of escaped ASCI characters. You can only use those listed above.
For information on adding resources to managed projects (those that target the common language runtime), please see Resources in Applications in the .NET Framework Developer's Guide. For information on manually adding resource files to managed projects, accessing resources, displaying static resources, and assigning resources strings to properties, see Walkthrough: Localizing Windows Forms and Walkthrough: Using Resources for Localization with ASP.NET.
Requirements
Win32