Single web application showing same information but in different lanaguages

Question

User-1220497221 posted

Hi, all

I'm uisng asp.net 2.0 and VS2005

I wanna know if anyone can suggest methods for the following scenarios:

The application is being done in two lanaguages such as english and french.

1) An English web server hosting the application. I would like to know if I'm using country flags, how to change the content to be read in the chosen language since i'll be using only a single page.

2) Same as 1 but the application is being hosted on a french web server. there's prob with the date format

Thanks in advance

Dave 

 

 

Answer 1

User-319574463 posted

 Look at http://www.guysmithferrier.com/ and in particular at Guy Smith's book ISBN 0321341384. The book is available online at Safari books at http://safari.oreilly.com/0321341384

Answer 2

User-1220497221 posted

Thanks

DO you know a way to get information abt the installation language of w2k3 + asp.net?

Answer 3

User-1974636474 posted

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture maybe?

Answer 4

User-1217497702 posted

Hi,

I think that satellite assemblies is what you are looking for:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/21a15yht(VS.71).aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/SatelliteAssemblies.asp

 

You can chnage the date format by chnaging the current culture or by printing in specific culture info for example:

            DateTime date = DateTime.Now;
            string dateAsString = date.ToString(new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US").DateTimeFormat);

 

Answer 5

User-1220497221 posted

Thnks mystery,

I'll try it.

Let say I install a french web server and add my web application.

In the page_load , should I put the following code:

1    Dim language
2    language = Split(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"), ",")
3   
4    dim strLanguage as string
5   
6    strLanguage=left(Lcase(language(0)),2)
7   
8    select case strLanguage
9   
10   case "en"
11  
12                              dateAsString = date.tostring(new system.globalization.cultureInfo("en-us").DatetimeFormat)
13  
14                           case "fr"
15  
16                              dateAsString = date.tostring(new system.globalization.cultureInfo("fr-fr").DatetimeFormat)
17  
18                           case else                             
19     
20   End select
21             

Thnks in advance

Regard,

Dave

 

Answer 6

User-1217497702 posted

Hi, mate

I think this video will help you: http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/video-40.aspx

Answer 7

User-1220497221 posted

Thanks pal

I'll view it

Answer 8

User-1220497221 posted

Finally I'll use what was taught in the video + the resources.

It's working perfectly

Cheers

Dave