Hi,
I'm making a multi language website.
My problem appears while trying to work with menu +resx files:
I want each menuItem's navigateUrl to have the appropriate link
according to the page's language. So I tried to write in the page's
resx file:
MenuItemResource1.href   -->   ~/pageURL?ln=en
But it doesn't work. It seems that he does not recognize this link.
I don't get an error, it's just that the menuItem doesn't get this link.
Help somebody.... Thanks.

It seems that you are using HTML control (as you are using MenuItemResource1.href)

HTML control cannot interprete ~ (relative path)

Use:  MenuItemResource1.href = 'pageURL?ln=en';

Or If you want to assign relative path use asp:HyperLink:

Hyperlink1.NavigateUrl = "~/pageURL?ln=en";

Well, about your first suggestion, I tried this :
MenuItemResource1.href       ->     http://www.google.co.il 
but it also didn't work. He is ignoring from it.
About your second suggestion, I want to use the asp:menu, which includes
menuItems and not asp:hyperlink, although if I used hyperlink it would probably
fix the problem but I can't use it.

Can you post your Menu HTML here?

Here is my menu:

<asp:Menu ID="MainMenu" runat="server" Orientation="Horizontal" meta:resourcekey="MainMenuResource1" Width="600px">
    <Items>
         <asp:MenuItem Text="About" Value="About" meta:resourcekey="MenuItemResource4">
               <asp:MenuItem Text="Who we are" runat="server" Value="Who we are"              
                             NavigateUrl="~/WebForms/about.aspx"
                               meta:resourcekey="MenuItemResource1">
              </asp:MenuItem>

And so on......

The relevant row in the resource file is:

MenuItemResource1.href         <------>       ~/WebForms/about.aspx?ln=en

 

Thanks a lot for your trying and for any other help,

Moshi. 
 

moshicn@gmail.com:

The relevant row in the resource file is:

MenuItemResource1.href         <------>       ~/WebForms/about.aspx?ln=en

 

Shouldn't It be 

MenuItemResource1.NavigateUrl         <------>       ~/WebForms/about.aspx?ln=en

instead of 

MenuItemResource1.href         <------>       ~/WebForms/about.aspx?ln=en

No, I tried it before,and now again and it doesn't work:

MenuItemResource1.NavigateUrl         <--->           ~/WebForms/about.aspx?ln=en 

desparate...... :-(

if anyone could help, or even give any clue...

I really don't know what to do

I think that you can assign only Text and ToolTip property to HyperLink from Resource file.

NavigateUrl must be set in HTML code. Like:

<asp:HyperLink ID="lnk" runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/Default.aspx"
    meta:resourcekey="lnkResource1"></asp:HyperLink>

OK, so what would you do if you have an asp:menu in your page, and have to give the menu items a different url according to the language ? I do give them different titles according to the language, using properties like Text... but how can I give them different urls according to the different language each time ?

For my part, I added the menu items programatically in the codebihind and switch on the Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name :

switch (Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name)
{
   case "en-CA":
       //add your menu item here
   break;
}

 

 

 

 

You must dynamically created by detecting current culture.