Using the correct ".resx" file according to the culture info

Question

I want to use localization in my project so I'm using ".resx" files.

I have two files "StringRes.resx" and "StringRes.fr.resx". As you can guess, I want that all the messages of my app change according to the CultureInfo of the user.

But when I do this :

public MainWindow()
{
     Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("fr");
     InitializeComponent();
}

It doesn't change anything when I do :

Console.WriteLine(StringRes.FirstName);

Indeed, it's always the string in StringRes which is displayed and not the string from StringRes.fr

The both are in the same namespace.

Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

I have created my own test projected an I used "fr-FR" as a culture tag. The test project can be found on my skydrive.

Works perfect.

In short:

I set the culture in the Properties of the project to be en-US as that is what I would want my Resource.resx to be.

Then I created Resource.resx, Resource.fr-FR.resx and Resource.nl-NL.resx.

I filled them with the TestData string. And the created a window with 3 buttons with events hooked to them. Next to the buttons I created a textblock, the textblock is binded to a Text string field.

In the button events I change the culture and the Text field. And you can then see the change happen.

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You first need to create your Resource.resx then in the same folder you need to create Resource.fr-FR.resx. The Resource.resx will get a codebehind file, all the cultured resource files should not. If your Resource.fr-FR.resx does have a culture file you did something wrong and it is best to delete that resources file and recreate it so it loses it's codebehind.