Localization and Satellite Assemblies with C#

Question

5.00/5 (1 vote)

See more:

I have my solution set up with one form (Form1). I have one text box in the form (textBox1). I have a folder in the Solution for the satellite assembly to go (de-DE). I have run the resgen as follows:
resgen Form1.resx de-DE\Form1.de-DE.resx
this is to duplicate the form resource file into that folder.
I have run the resgen again from there to create the .resources file and from that run the assembly linker. I am trying to get the program to pull the resources from the de-DE folder based on the CurrentCulture setting being at de-DE. But I am not getting anywhere with it. Any thoughts?

Posted 28-Jul-10 7:15am

BUnderwood

Updated 28-Jul-10 10:46am

v2

Add a Solution

2 solutions

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2010-07-28T07:31:00

Solution 1

You don't need to pull anything from your side. Have a look at these articles to see how things are handled in localization. It's simple current thread based.
Localizing a Windows Application with Satellite Assemblies[^]
Globalization and localization demystified in ASP.NET 2.0[^]

Posted 28-Jul-10 7:31am

Sandeep Mewara

Comments

BUnderwood 28-Jul-10 13:37pm

But I still don't see how this will modify the resources on Form1 particularly. As well as this route is being forced on me from above.

Sandeep Mewara 28-Jul-10 13:39pm

Creating resource was fine what you did. Thing is once you have proper resources, you don't need to explicitly force form to pick particular resource. Just specify the thread culture and .NET will automatically take care of it.

BUnderwood 28-Jul-10 15:02pm

That is what I thought too, but it is not doing so. Any ideas why. Do you have a way that I could zip you the file?

Toli Cuturicu · Answer 2 · 2010-07-28T10:11:00

Solution 2

Try this:

C#

public static void SetCulture(string culture)
{
    try
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(culture);
    }
    catch
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
    }
}

Just give culture = "de-DE".

Posted 28-Jul-10 10:11am

Toli Cuturicu

Updated 28-Jul-10 10:12am

v2

Comments

BUnderwood 28-Jul-10 16:34pm

Thanks, but that did not change things.