Making App multi language - Best way?

Question

User1035637761 posted

I have an application that needs to be multi language and the way i'd have done it in asp was just to produce a few different files, lang_eng.asp,lang_ger.asp,lang_fr.asp etc containing every piece of text within the app as a variable and the use a select case on every page like:

Select case session("app_lang")
case "eng"
<!--#include file="lang_eng.asp"-->
case "ger"
<!--#include file="lang_ger.asp"-->

etc...

I'm assuming there a more cunning way to do this in asp.net 2.0? Whats my best way of approaching it so every page is automatically given access to the correct language set according to a session var without having to resort to the old include method?

Thanks.

Answer 1

User89244710 posted

hi ,

in asp.net 2.0 you can do this so easly using localResourceFiles or globalResourceFiles and u just give yor control the key and the compiler gets the current culture and render the key from the correct resource files ,

 

that's it

 

by the way u don't need sessions or any thing to swap manually

u can do this in the global file in the Application_BeginRequest

and check the language querystring

according to it set your site culture like this

 

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(Request.QueryString["Culture"]);

 

thanks,

Answer 2

User1035637761 posted

Thank you Ahmed, useful info.

For anyone else looking to do the same thing i also found a very good 4 page article at: http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/6997/0/page/2