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Sometimes our application may need to cater content in different languages for different
country users. Let us see in this article how to cater different contents based on the
culture using Globalization in ASP.NET.
Globalization is the process of designing and developing a software product that function
for multiple cultures. A web forms page have two culture values ,Culture and UICulture.
Culture is used to determine culture dependent function such as Date, Currency. So it is
used for date formatting ,number formatting. UICulture values is used to determine
which language the resources should load that is which UIstring the resource should use.
The two culture settings do not need to have same values. It may be different depending
on the application.
1. Through Web.Config
<configuration>
<system.web>
<globalization
fileEncoding="utf-8"
requestEncoding="utf-8"
responseEncoding="utf-8"
culture="en-US"
uiCulture="fr-FR"
/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
ASP.NET wont automatically translate the contents in one language to another language
by using Culture. For this we need to put strings in resources file and have to load the
strings based on the culture. Let us see how to create resources and use.
Resources
Resources represents embedded data such as strings or images, which can be retrieved
during runtime and displayed in the user interface. Resource Management is a feature of
.NET framework which is used to extract localized element from source code and to store
them with a string key as resources . At runtime, ResourceManager class instance is
used to resolve key to the original resource or localized version. Resources can be stored
as an independent file or part of an assembly.
In resource.en-US.txt
Test = Hello there, friend!
In resource.fr-FR.txt
Test = Bonjour là, ami!
Goto VisualStudio.Net command prompt and use resgen command utility to generate
.resources file
resgen resource.en-US.txt
resgen resource.fr-FR.txt
In TestGlobalization.aspx Page,
This will output the content based on the option selected. Hope this article would have
helped you all.
Good Day....