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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 204

How to include a string in a razor statement

Is it possible to include a string in a razor statement?

For example, the following code:

Page.Title = Resources.HomeStrings_en.Title;

I would like to be like so:

var locale = "_en";
Page.Title = Resources.HomeStrings + locale + .Title;

Clearly, this does not compile, but how can I go about doing this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 183

Answers (2)

Romias
Romias

Reputation: 14133

Resources are static classes with a property for each key, so you can't do that.

You need to use ResourceManager.

var resset= Resources.ResourceManager.GetResourceSet(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture, true, false);
resset.GetString("HomeStrings" + "_en" + ".Title")

One thing that makes me think... is that .NET Resources handle the language change using the Culture... going to retrieve the data from the right file. And it seems you are using one file to hold all your languages... and this is not recommended.

Here you can have a tutorial of Internationalization in ASP.NET MVC: http://afana.me/post/aspnet-mvc-internationalization.aspx

or this one: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GlobalizationInternationalizationAndLocalizationInASPNETMVC3JavaScriptAndJQueryPart1.aspx

Upvotes: 1

Jonathan Hiben
Jonathan Hiben

Reputation: 553

You could use Reflection. If HomeStrings is a property of Resources for instance, you can try the following :

PropertyInfo property = Resources.GetType().GetProperty("HomeStrings" + locale);
Page.Title = (property.GetValue(Resources) as the type of HomeStrings).Title;

Of course it works with attributes, methods, etc. Just make sure to do all the necessary tests: property != null, (... as the type of HomeStrings) != null,...

Upvotes: 1

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