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Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

nzeyimana — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:47:16 GMT

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Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

anandav200 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:40:37 GMT

Hi Guys,

I would like to know how we can implement multiple localisation on SilverLight Class Library.

My scenario is like this.

1. SL class libraray having controls that can be reused in the silverlight application. These controls need to load resources either in Danish or in English based on the CultureInfo.

For eg. By default the Content of Button is Browse. But if the user culture info is Dnaish i need to load the content in Danish that is stored in MyUserControl.da.resources. Default need to be loaded from MyUserControl.resources.

2. The complied SL class libraray dlls will be used in SL application

Any help will be appreciated...

Regards,

Anand

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

jordanhammond — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:52:59 GMT

anandav200:
Could you please tell me how i can implement that

I've created a very basic sample of a project that utilises generic.xaml.

Available here

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

anandav200 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:19:19 GMT

jordanhammond:
If all your controls are in one class library, why don't you put all the xaml in one file - generic.xaml.

Could you please tell me how i can implement that

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

jordanhammond — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:48:24 GMT

anandav200:
But i have all my usercontrols in SIlverLight Class Library which i am refering in SL application. I am planning to implement one resx per xaml control .(If i create a usercontrol FilterBox.xaml my plan is to create FilterBoxResource.da.resx for Danish). How is it possible to use the resource file fro danish when my culture is Danish?

If all your controls are in one class library, why don't you put all the xaml in one file - generic.xaml. By creating language resource files per control would imply that you would also want to have each control in its own library, downloaded only as when needed.

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

anandav200 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:43:03 GMT

Thanks Rosh for your post

But i have all my usercontrols in SIlverLight Class Library which i am refering in SL application. I am planning to implement one resx per xaml control .(If i create a usercontrol FilterBox.xaml my plan is to create FilterBoxResource.da.resx for Danish). How is it possible to use the resource file fro danish when my culture is Danish?

Regards,
Anand

Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

roshvallyara — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:09:10 GMT

i'm able to bind page with multiple resource check my blog http://roshworldoftechnologies.blogspot.com/2008/07/multiple-resource-support-in.html

Re: Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

andrevieiradematos — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:30:47 GMT

hello

i started adding multilanguage support to my silverlight 2 beta 2 application today. i am using different resx files as usual (.pt-BR.resx, .fr-FR.resx, etc) in other applications i write, and it works fine.

I tryed the same thing with the silverlight app, but i started getting the errors related in this post (only the default language, in my case, loads). I've searched the web and found:

- 1 post (http://wpf-e.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2B248D261D0E0035!230.entry) telling that this is some sort of bug that will be fixed in final version;

- another post (http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/06/10/localizing-a-silverlight-application.aspx) telling that this is [the new Silverlight runtime localization model, which essentially is “one language, one xap”.];

- this discussion with a few alternatives to have multilanguage silverlight 2 application.

The silverlight app i'm writing is only a small part of a bigger project, and i'm still 6 months way from "releasing it in the world", so trying all of these approaches to find out that this problem will be fixed in RTM would be a waist of time.

My question is "who is right"? The guy telling that this is a known bug that will be fixed or the other one telling that this is the new runtime localization model (aka microsoft's new way of spending developer's time)?

Thanks

Re: Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

bPlaTyPuS — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:11:09 GMT

Hi everyone!

When I try your solutions, I have always the same problem -> it doesn't work in Blend... (it's only displaying an error in Blend :

"The DependencyProperty target is invalid: myProject.Strings"

Do you have an idea how to solve this ?

Thx for help!

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

Simbalight — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:12:46 GMT

I'm pretty sure people from MS are following this thread. I would really like to know how localization is going to be fixed for RTM. What to do till then? Use Slyi's "Friend-to-Public-Hack"? How can we minimize the necessary changes for RTM?

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

Simbalight — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:21:31 GMT

My manual tests with WinZip do work.

It's VS2008 Pro, WinXP Pro and SL2B2 Tollkit for VS2008, all german versions.

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

slyi — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:04:42 GMT

Your correct, i cant add or delete to that compressed folder either.

Try setting the timeout WScript.Sleep 500 to 5 seconds eg: WScript.Sleep 5000, to give extra time to add the file to the compressed folder in the VB Script also try using a different compression tool eg: winzip

Can you tell if your using a german OS or Visual Studio ?

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

Simbalight — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:27:50 GMT

I think that the zip/xap problem is independent of additional zip tools. Please check this xap http://www.vortexeu.com/simba/SL2_B2_LocTest.xap.

It is exactly as it was emitted by VS2008. I cannot erase any file using the windows "zip compressed folder". Can you reproduce the issue on your system?

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

jordanhammond — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:13:23 GMT

thanks slyi, will have a look at the sample.

I have 7zip intalled.

Re: Re: Beta2 Resource Localization

slyi — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:41:43 GMT

I'll have a post ready for the weekend using dyncmically creating the culture xaps using post build events, but the ondemand loading works see crude sample at http://cid-2b248d261d0e0035.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/ondemand.zip

For the folks having issues with the zip/xaps vbs script. Can you confirm if have some other zip technolgy installed (i dont) eg: winzip, winrar etc... which may interfere with windows zip compression, also is the issues happening on win2k3 or Vista 64 or any other non standard config?