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Paddy
Paddy

Reputation: 33867

ASP.net MVC - using custom culture - resources not being loaded

I have an ASP.net MVC site, which I want to use a couple of resource files to set some strings.

I have a class library containing my viewmodels, and I have added a resource file (ValidationMessages) there, with a single string (called Test), and then have a property like so in my view model:

        public string TestResource
        {
            get
            {
                return ValidationMessages.Test;
            }
        }

And that works fine, when output on my view like so:

<div>@Model.TestResource</div>

If I add a ValidationMessages.en-au.resx (my default would be en-gb) file to my class library and create a different version of the test string, and then have the following in my global.asax:

 protected void Application_AcquireRequestState(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
     Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-au");
     Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-au");
 }

And this also works fine.

What I want to do is add a custom culture 'en-gb-ly' - I have registered this culture on my machine ok (using code from here). When I set the current culture to "en-gb-ly" in my global.asax and include a ValidationMessages.en-gb-ly.resx in my class library, the output has reverted back to the 'base' version of the Test string, not the one in my en-gb-ly resource.

Anybody any idea why this might be happening?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 938

Answers (1)

Clafou
Clafou

Reputation: 15410

A first thing to check is that the en-ly satellite assembly gets deployed as expected. Unfortunately if your custom culture is not installed on your build machine, then it won't even get built!

Upvotes: 2

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