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Luke
Luke

Reputation: 1077

Why does my application not translate to the local CurrentUICulture?

I have a winform, C# application that I would like to have run in localised languages. The target .Net is 3.0 as a lot of my users are still using XP. The application is a system tray application.

I have put all the strings into a Resources.resx and have generated Resources.XX.resx files for the different languages I need, using ResX Resource Manager.

If I set the CurrentUICulture to another language (i.e. Finnish) using the code:

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("fi-FI");

It works as expected and shows all the forms in Finnish.

However if I install the application on a machine with the Language set as Finnish all of the winforms come up with te English strings (English is also the neutral string)

I have checked that the forms have the property localizable set to true.

Why does it work for when I hardcode the CurrentUICulture but not when I don't?

Is there an alternative way to check the UI language of the PC and update the application CurrentUICulture?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 193

Answers (1)

D T
D T

Reputation: 3756

enter image description here You can set Locate and Language on form, It will display by language of windows

Upvotes: 1

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