How to check whethere a resource file is available or not?

Question

User1042252450 posted

Hi all,

   i need to bind a resource file using system culture info. Say for example, if my system culture is Spanish(Spain) "es-ES" then i have to look for "es-ES" resource file to bind. If it is not there then i have to bind with default resource file ('en-US"). How to do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

User384031199 posted

Hi,

You need not add any specific code for this. .NET will take care of getting the culture specific resource file. If the culture specific resource file is not found, it will take up the the culture neutral resource file.

Refer to this link.

http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/localization/localization.aspx

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

User-886123767 posted

check it out following article..

U just need to set culture only. Based on culture it will fetch out value.

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/prasham/RESOURCEFILES02132008080733AM/RESOURCEFILES.aspx

http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/localization/localization.aspx

Answer 3

User712082397 posted

From another post here

Just make sure that you set this kind of code in your global.asax. This helps the resource manager to automatically pick the appropriate resource file

Sub Application_BeginRequest(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)  
     Try  
         'Set the current culture based on what the browser sends to the server   
         Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(Request.UserLanguages(0))  
     Catch e As Exception  
         'Give a default, if its not found  
         Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New CultureInfo("en-US")  
     End Try  
     'set the current UI culture   
     'this will be used by the resource manager to retrieve values from resource files automatically   
     Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture  
 End Sub  

And then you can use either GetGlobalResourceObject or GetLocalResourceObject(), depending on where your resource files are.