How can i assign resource file value to and asp.net hidden field

Question

I am in a situation where i need to read a value from from asp.net hidden fields

<asp:HiddenField ID="hdSearchInnerText"  runat="server" 
    Value="What are you looking for?" /> 

This is for a multilingual website and and i need to read value for the above hidden field from the resource .resx file real issue is that asp.net hidden fields doesn't take meta:resourcekey="hdSearchInnerText" as a property. How can i get around this i tried and could not find a fix.

Any idea or help is appreciated.

Answer 1

In your code behind, you could write something like:

this.hdSearchInnerText.Value = this.GetLocalResourceObject("hdSearchInnerText").ToString();

Alternatively, you can explicitly use resources from the App_GlobalResources repository:

<asp:HiddenField ID="hdSearchInnerText"  runat="server" 
Value="<%$ Resources:ResourceFile, hdSearchInnerText %>" /> 

where ResourceFile is the name of the global Resource file and hdSearchInnerText is the name of the Resource Text which has the value "What are you looking for?".

Answer 2

The action from Tools\Generate Local Resources doesn't generate meta keys for hidden fields, but you can manually add one.

So open the resource file from App_LocalResources and add a new entry with name hdSearchInnerTextResource1.Value and the desired value "What are you looking for?"

Then you can use it in markup

<asp:HiddenField ID="hdSearchInnerText"  runat="server" 
    Value="What are you looking for?" meta:resourceKey="hdSearchInnerTextResource1" /> 

Edit

You can still use the "Generate Local Resources" with the hidden field, but you need to create a new control which inherits the HiddenField class, override the Value property and decorate it with the "Localizable" attribute

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace MyApplication.Controls
{
    public class LocalizableHiddenField : HiddenField
    {
        [Localizable(true)]
        public override string Value
        {
            get
            {
                return base.Value;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Value = value;
            }
        }
    }
}

Register this in Web.Config under the controls tag and to be used something like this:

<cc:LocalizableHiddenField runat="server" ID="LocalizableHiddenField1" Value="some value"
            meta:resourcekey="LocalizableHiddenField1Resource1" />