By Windows XP, Microsoft’s own resource tools had won by default. Here’s the surprising part: I still run Borland Resource Workshop in 2026 .
You wrote a .RC text file, compiled it with RC.EXE , and hoped the coordinates didn't overlap. It was functional, but it was blind. borland resource workshop
The last standalone Resource Workshop was version 4.5 (bundled with Borland C++ 4.5 in 1994). It received minor updates but never made the jump to 64-bit native. By Windows XP, Microsoft’s own resource tools had
If you cut your teeth on Windows programming in the early 90s—using C, Turbo Pascal, or even Visual Basic—you remember the Resource Compiler dance. By Windows XP