Hi, can anyone tell me how to create a system that is multilingual i.e. all the captions of the Labels, Links and Buttons appear in the language selected by the user. I have a ASP.NET 2.0 project which I want to be a multilingual system.

Hi

There are multiple ways of doing this. Two interesting ways are

1. Use .NET localization support. Build localized satellite assemblies that will allow you to emded strings  / bitmaps / names of controls etc which you can programatically load and unload depending on the user setting. Please google for "Multilingual support" for more information on this.

2. A hand coding way is to create a database / xml file of strings of names of controls / message etc. When the user logs in either find the locale of the machine or request the user for the language and use database / xml queries to get the strings and paint then on the screen.

HTH

VJ...

Hi,

You may want to have a look at my following tutorials:

Tutorial: Translating an ASP.net Web application

Trick: Automated translation of a resx file

Tutorial: Localize a Web.sitemap file

Using a resource in an ASP.NET Theme (Tutorial)

Hope this helps,

Thank you guys.... The links provided by Arnaud were quite helpful

I will certainly follow these tips for Multilingual systems.

Thanks.