Flipping languages with resource files

[Guest]

Hello,

I have what I thought was a simple problem, and perhaps there is still a
simple solution. I have a page that is using local resource files to store
all the necessary control properties on the form. I am using
initializeculture() to retrieve the user's preference from our database and
to set the currentCulture and currentUICulture on the first load. It works
well. However, we must supply a linkbutton named either Français or English
that a user can click to rebuild the page in the opposite language. The
problem is that the onClick event gets inheriently called after the
initializeCulture subroutine. So I am having troubles flipping the language.
Even if I implicitly call initializeCulture from the onClick event I do not
know how to tell the app to reload the resource files for the new language.

I am really trying to avoid having to say Label1.text = ... when I know that
the framework has the ability to load local resource files without code.

Any help would be appreciated,

 

[ThunderMusic]

hi,
when you flip your language (on the onClick of your button), just call

Server.Transfer(this.Request.Path);

It will reload the page with the right resources...

I hope it helps

ThunderMusic

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Ryan,

The InitializeCulture method is called very early in the page life cycle,
before controls are created or properties are set for the page. Therefore,
to read values that are passed to the page from controls, you must get them
directly from the request using the Form collection.

#How to: Set the Culture and UI Culture for ASP.NET Web Page Globalization
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bz9tc508(vs.80).aspx

In your case, since you're using a button to flip the culture instead of a
ListBox in above example, you could easily do this by:

protected override void InitializeCulture()
{
if (Request.Form["__EVENTTARGET"] == "LinkButton1")
{
// flip the culture

}
base.InitializeCulture();
}

Hope this helps.


Sincerely,
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[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Ryan,

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of this post? Thanks for the trouble.

Regards,
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[Guest]

Hey Walter,

Thank-you for getting back to me. I have been away, but I will try your
suggestion and get back to you.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Walter,

That works great. Thanks for your help.