ASP MVC 3 - Localization with LocalizationDisplayNameAttribute

Question

Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong in this code:

    public class LocalizationDisplayNameAttribute : DisplayNameAttribute
    {


    public LocalizationDisplayNameAttribute(string resourceKey)
    {
        ResourceKey = resourceKey;
    }


    public override string DisplayName
    {
        get
        {
            string displayName = App_GlobalResources.Global.ResourceManager.GetString(ResourceKey);

            return string.IsNullOrEmpty(displayName)
                ? string.Format("[[{0}]]", ResourceKey)
                : displayName;
        }
    }

    private string ResourceKey { get; set; }


}

The culture is set to cs. I have two resources: Global.resx and Global.cs.resx, but when I run this application I always get string from Global.resx (it should be Global.cs.resx)

Answer 1

The following works fine for me:

public class LocalizationDisplayNameAttribute : DisplayNameAttribute
{
    public LocalizationDisplayNameAttribute(string resourceKey)
    {
        ResourceKey = resourceKey;
    }

    public override string DisplayName
    {
        get
        {
            string displayName = Global.ResourceManager.GetString(ResourceKey);
            return string.IsNullOrEmpty(displayName)
                ? string.Format("[[{0}]]", ResourceKey)
                : displayName;
        }
    }
    private string ResourceKey { get; set; }
}

View model:

public class MyViewModel
{
    [LocalizationDisplayName("foo")]
    public string Foo { get; set; }
}

Controller:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View(new MyViewModel());
    }
}

View:

@model MyViewModel
@Html.LabelFor(x => x.Foo)
@Html.EditorFor(x => x.Foo)

Resources:

~/App_GlobalResources/Global.resx:

foo: foo

~/App_GlobalResources/Global.cs.resx:

foo: localized foo

~/web.config:

<system.web>
    <globalization culture="cs" uiCulture="cs"/>
    ...
</system.web>

prints the correct localized value.