User807845033 posted
Sure:
To do a basic asp:label and localize it you would do something like this:
<asp: Label ID=lblHello runat="server" meta:resourcekey="lblHello" Text="Hello World"></asp: Label>
This is quite straight forward in that you would create a localresource file and add an entry to it that had the key of lblHello and a value of whatever you wanted. Noting that its NOT case sensitive.
When working with a grid there are a number of things exposed that I didn't at first understand, mainly because of the lack of actual explanation on the subject. But the fact is, the meta:resourcekey= line does not in fact rely at all on the ID of
the field element. This simple entry just tells the control that its added to, to attempt to find anything that might be of use to it within the local resource file if it exists. If there is nothing of use then do normal stuff.
So taking a look at your grid control in source you will notice you have entries for asp: BoundFields as well as an entry in each grid for asp: CommandField. Simply adding an entry that says something like meta:resourcekey="gridcontrols" to each tag
will tell the tag to go look inside the local resource to see if it can find anything related to its properties in a tag called gridcontrols. Then inside the local resouce file you'd add things like:
gridcontrols.canceltext, gridcontrols.edittext, gridcontrols.inserttext..... These entries allow you to dictate what you want the value of the Edit, Save, Delete text to be on the buttons/labels for the control.
Then supplying a fieldname entry inside each DataBound entry you can dictate what you want the headertext will be for each field by adding a tag that refers to the fieldname and then adding fieldname.headertext as an entry in the resource file. It
all works quite nicely...
Oh, and for those tempted to follow all the pointers to just click the Tools / Build local resource menu on VS... Well, in a word: DON'T. I've done it a couple times to help me figure out what it was doing on test pages, but in my experience,
if you do it on an actual page, especially when you've got AJAX stuff mixed in, it will replace things it shouldn't and basically screw up the formatting of your entire page. If its a simple page then it will work fine, but on more complex pages you're
just asking for trouble.
glenn
