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Internationalization

A collection of 5 posts

Making your ASP.NET Global Resource files work in JavaScript. IntelliSense included!

Any modern web application needs localization! You simply can’t ignore the huge amounts of people who doesn’t speak your language, or whose native language is different from yours. You’re probably using resource files (.resx) in .NET, but how do you go about getting values from your resource

Translate text in C#, using Google Translate, revisited

A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about how to translate text in C# using Google Translate [https://martinnormark.com/2009/03/12/translate-text-in-c-using-google-translate]. Since then, an official AJAX API has been released, which is a much better solution. Reading the comments of the blog post indicates that

Unit test for verifying references from DataAnnotation validation to the ErrorMessageResourceName value

I love the new model validation features in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. One thing I don’t like though, is that the ErrorMessageResourceName is loosely typed. The ErrorMessageResourceType, however, is a System.Type which will be strongly typed by assigning its value using the typeof(Namespace.ResourceSetType) method. Since there’s

Automatically translate Global and Local Resource (resx) files

Yesterday, I blogged about how you can use Google Translate to translate a string in C# [https://martinnormark.com/post/Translate-text-in-C-using-Google-Translate.aspx]. To make it more useful than just a simple translator, and because I need to translate some Global Resource files for an E-commerce website that I’m working

Designing for Internationalization

Web sites and Web Applications today, are very often exposed beyond the borders of your home country, and therefore users speak different languages, and has a different currency, date- and time formats etc. ASP.NET provides you with an entire namespace for handling things like this. That is the System.