Changing culture or UI culture doesn't change page contents

Question

User-703432812 posted

Hi,

I have a dual-language site (English/Slovakian).  I would like to test that the translations on the page are working correctly without having to run the project.

Surely if I set the UI culture or culture setting on the page, it should pull the correct translations out of the appropriate .resx file.

However, even when I set the culture to sk-SK instead of en-GB on the page, I still see the english text in the page in preview mode.

I know this works ok when I run the project (in the code I switch languages on the current thread), but there are certain error messages I want to see translated ok, instead of having to run through all the possible error paths. 

Any ideas?
 

Answer 1

User-503940700 posted

How are you changing the culture? In what method?

 

Vivek

Answer 2

User-703432812 posted

I am changing it in the Document properties in the Properties box inside Visual Studio.

 

Answer 3

User-503940700 posted

AFAIK changing the document culture properties will not help unless you change the culture of the currently executing thread.

Hope this helps,

Vivek

Answer 4

User-703432812 posted
Ok I kind of gathered that too, I just thought it would be useful if I could see the translated page somehow in design/preview mode.