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c#asp.netlocalization
frenchie
frenchie

Reputation: 51937

Resource file for language dictionary in C#

I have a web application that works in several languages. On the client side, I store words in JavaScript arrays like this:

var SomeSectionOfThePage = ['word1', 'word2', ... ]

And then when I'm generating the HTML dynamically in the client I do this:

var TheHTML = '<div>' + SomeSectionOfThePage[0] + '</div>';

I keep the dictionary arrays in a different .js files and when I need to generate the page, the URL for the JavaScript file is resolved according to the user's language. This works great because I don't need to touch the code to modify words in the language dictionaries.

I want to do the same thing for the back-end: I want to have different resource files that get loaded depending on the user's language.

For now, this is what I'm doing for generating HTML on the server:

<div><asp:Literal runat="server" ID="SomeID" /></div>

And then in my code-behind, I do something like this:

switch (TheLanguage)
{
   case 1:
       SomeID.Text = "hi";

   case 2:
       SomeID.Text = "bonjour";
}

As you can see, the text is stored in my C# file and that works well for now but I want to move the text to a resource file. How do I store the words so that they're easy to restore in C# when I generating the HTML? I'm looking for ideas on how to put this functionality together.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1237

Answers (1)

Cubicle.Jockey
Cubicle.Jockey

Reputation: 3328

You may want to start here with this information:

Localization with Resource Files

Upvotes: 1

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