I developed a ASP.NET forum appln
if i want the forum to be made
enriched with multilingual
support especially in "german"
how sall i do it.
is there any provision to convert
english code of my file to german
in .NET

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Aravindan.N
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You should look into resource files. You can store all the displayed text strings in your application in resource files. One for each language you want to support. Every place in your application that has text, you'll need to set the text property of the control from the resource file. The resource utilities will automatically return you the appropriate text based on the current language setting. I haven't actually done this yet, but I have read about it and will soon be embarking on this very task myself.

Thank you planoie

i try this way

The Steps are

1. Create a Resource File like below :LocString.resx in ur project
2. Imports the following namespaces

Imports System.Resources
Imports System.Globalization
Imports System.Threading

3. put a button on a form & in the click event type the following code :

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New CultureInfo("en-US") ' chng this line based on ur needs like 'ja-JA' for japanese

       Dim Myrsrcset As ResXResourceSet = New ResXResourceSet(Application.StartupPath + "/LocStrings.resx") ' change this line based on path of LocStrings.resx file...

        Dim ci As CultureInfo = New CultureInfo("en-US") ' chng this line based on ur needs like 'ja-JA' for japanese

        MsgBox(rmData1.GetString("HelloCaption"))

4. Any questions pls mail to [email protected] Good Luck.

----------------LocString.resx----Code-----------------------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<root>
    <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
        <xsd:element name="root" msdata:IsDataSet="true">
            <xsd:complexType>
                <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
                    <xsd:element name="data">
                        <xsd:complexType>
                            <xsd:sequence>
                                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
                                <xsd:element name="comment" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="2" />
                            </xsd:sequence>
                            <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
                            <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
                            <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
                        </xsd:complexType>
                    </xsd:element>
                    <xsd:element name="resheader">
                        <xsd:complexType>
                            <xsd:sequence>
                                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0" msdata:Ordinal="1" />
                            </xsd:sequence>
                            <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
                        </xsd:complexType>
                    </xsd:element>
                </xsd:choice>
            </xsd:complexType>
        </xsd:element>
    </xsd:schema>
    <resheader name="ResMimeType">
        <value>text/microsoft-resx</value>
    </resheader>
    <resheader name="Version">
        <value>1.0.0.0</value>
    </resheader>
    <resheader name="Reader">
        <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceReader, System.Windows.Forms, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
    </resheader>
    <resheader name="Writer">
        <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
    </resheader>
    <data name="HelloCaption">
        <value>Hello World!</value>
    </data>
    <data name="HelloTest">
        <value>Hello World Test!</value>
    </data>
</root>

That's a great example, but where is the other language? How does this work when you change the culture? I recall something about having a resource file for each language you want to support, and the resource set class handles getting that based on the culture. I don't see in your example the linkup between multiple resource files and the "active culture".

What is "rmData1", is that supposed to be "Myrsrcset"?