How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application

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How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application(www.codecapers.com)

submitted by mceranski(345) 1 year, 9 months ago

hile working on WeBlog this week I decided that I needed to start thinking about localization. If you have never heard the term “localization” before then its just a fancy way of saying that I want my application to be multi-lingual. In order to localize an application in .NET, you generally need to create a separate resource files for each language you want to support. In an ASP.NET MVC application, the resource files should be placed in a folder called App_GlobalResources. The folder can be created by right clicking on your project and selecting Add –> Add ASP.NET Folder –> App_GlobalResources. The resource files follow a naming convention. The first part of the name is the user defined part, for WeBlog we called it “Strings” but it could be whatever you want. The second part of the string is the Culture. For English the culture is “en”, for French the culture is “fr”, and so on and so forth... Read the full article: http://www.codecapers.com/post/How-to-Localize-an-ASPNET-MVC-Application.aspx

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