Language change on site database - just a push in the right direction

Hi.

I want to do a site with suport for more languages, just like it is here on this site.I got some questions about this i just need to clarify before i start working with it.

1. I seen some tutorials about Globalization and Localization and they use .resx to get the different texts from. Now i guess that is for lets say the headers, menus and so on, im i right? not body text e.i a blog post.

2. How can i do/how do i do to get e.i text from a database depending on the lang? e.i presentation text is in 3 langs..

Tips, articles, examples or explinations is welcome

Thanks in advance

Re: Language change on site database - just a push in the right direction

The contents can be translated to any language by Google Translation API.

Re: Language change on site database - just a push in the right direction

Hi,

Answer for your first query is, whenever we are localizaing an application all text which displayed to the user should come from resx file or database. If your application takes input from user then, it should allow user to type in his/her own language.

Please refer below link for more information-

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688110.aspx

For your second query, if you are using database instead of resx file, then all the text should be stored in key- value pair form similar to resx file's key-value pair. Then fetch the data and put it in aplication. Refere below link for more information.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479334.aspx

Hope this will give you a quite fair idea :)

Re: Language change on site database - just a push in the right direction

thanks leena.d.patil. the information was pretty good.. i get the idea now i just have to execute it :)

any code examples is appriciated

Re: Language change on site database - just a push in the right direction

Hi,

Refer below link-

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227982.aspx

It contains code samples for fetching values from '.resx' file.