How to set the language of the reportviewer toolbar of VS 2010?

Question

I am making a windows form application using Visual Studio 2010.

I am using ReportViewer tool to show my RDLC report. The header of the toolbar is coming in English no matter what the currentUI or the current culture is as I am also Explicitly setting it as French but still its coming only in English, I am trying to display the toolbar according to the region of the Destination computer in which my application will run.

Till now I have add these lines to set the cultures explicitly during the loading of my windows form.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("fr-FR"); Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("fr-FR");

and tested it using

MessageBox.Show(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.ToString()); MessageBox.Show(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.ToString());

which provide me with the outcome (fr-FR).

Any assistance or guidance will be very helpful thank you.

Answer 1

You need to have the ReportViewer Language Pack (this is probably the version you need Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2010 Language Pack).

Also have a look at How to localize the ReportViewer control in ASP.NET 2.0 as it provides more information of localizing the report viewer.

Perhaps this article can also help you: Customizing and Localizing Microsoft ReportViewer .NET - An exact solution.

Answer 2

On Windows Forms you can install the correct language pack on every client that uses your application (i.e.: link to italian language pack).

On ASP.NET you can implement the IReportViewerMessages2 interface to provide custom localization of the ReportViewer control user interface.