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Tim Santeford
Tim Santeford

Reputation: 28121

How do I get the localized strings for Day, Week, Month, and Year in .Net

I know I can use DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.GetMonthName and GetDayName to get the localized names of actual calendar parts like June, Friday, etc. Now I need the translated strings for the following words "Day", "Week", "Month", and "Year." Is it possible to get these from .net somehow?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2255

Answers (3)

Fellmeister
Fellmeister

Reputation: 591

This might be more up the right street:

Best practices for ASP.NET web application localization

Upvotes: -1

ScottE
ScottE

Reputation: 21630

Assuming you have the culture set, you can make use of date formatters to return the translated string. I'm not sure how you'd translate the year, however!

Here is a good reference for the formatters:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

You can pass in a known date (instead of the current date) to get a specific day / month name.

Given the update to your question, you're better off using resource files.

Upvotes: 3

BoltBait
BoltBait

Reputation: 11489

You can't get that out of the .Net library. But, you can get the information from a translation web service (if you really need it real-time).

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/dev/

Or, if static is fine, just translate it ahead of time and store it in a resource:

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/
http://translate.google.com/

Upvotes: 3

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