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Mina Wissa
Mina Wissa

Reputation: 10971

Windows Store Apps: change application culture at runtime without restarting the application?

I have a windows store app that supports English (LTR) and Arabic (RTL).

I want to add an option in the settings to enable the user to change the app culture from English to Arabic and vice versa.

I want the string resources and the UI flow direction to change immediately without having to restart the application.

how can this be done ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 858

Answers (2)

Rogério Silva
Rogério Silva

Reputation: 129

Windows.Globalization.ApplicationLanguages.PrimaryLanguageOverride = "de-DE";

Only works if put AFTER the "Frame rootFrame" creation in App OnLaunched event. I use to develop using one language at design time and another at runtime, what makes easy to check the use of resources.

Upvotes: 0

Martin Suchan
Martin Suchan

Reputation: 10620

Use this for changing the culture (not sure abot the LTR/RTL). Let me know, if it works. Maybe you would need to refresh localization bindings after setting the new culture.

Windows.Globalization.ApplicationLanguages.PrimaryLanguageOverride = "de-DE";

Upvotes: 1

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