I do not think the sysmessages table structure changed since at least version 7

Plus I am not linking to sysmessages but using FORMATMESSAGE function so I do not care much if the schema changes or not.

I like to use existing tools instead of reinventing the wheel and FORMATMESSAGE gives you a lot of functionality.

We use it to translate all texts used by tha application including the windows forms captions.

This may not be viable solution for everyone but wasn't even considered in the post thread so I figured I can mention it.