hi all,

I need some help. I'm doing a dual-lingual application with resource files and I must allow the user to change the language at the click of a button.

So, I have my resource files with the strings of the various languages but i'm not able to get the browser to pick up the new locale that I specified.

Here's how I tried to do it:

// This is a function in a generic Utility.cs class
public static void setLocale(string newLocale){
        
        try
        {
                System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =
                                   new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(newLocale);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            { 
                // write to log file
            }
    }


//the following codes is done everytime a page is loaded (postback or not).
            base.InitializeCulture();


// this is the code in my button
protected void lnkLanguage_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (lblLanguage.Text == "")
        {
            lblLanguage.Text = "ch";
            Utility.setLocale("zh-HK");
        }
        else
        {
            lblLanguage.Text = "";
            Utility.setLocale(SecuredSession.Culture);
        }
    }

what am I doing wrong?? or should i be doing it another way??

Thanks in advance

Hi,

Guess you need to set the UI culture as well, like this,

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =   new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(newLocale);

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture =   new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(newLocale);

Which will affect the resources that are loaded. CurrentCulture would affect the results of the functions such as Date, Currency formatting.

Hope this helps!

thanks for the quick response but it didn't seem to help.  

Hi,

It depends on how you have implemented globalization, I would suggest you to go through the following MSDN article and double check whether you have the followed the right steps,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227427.aspx

Good Luck!