How to localize ASP.NET MVC application?

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pirho picture pirho · Oct 10, 2008 · Viewed 65.9k times · Source

What would be best practice to localize your ASP.NET MVC application?

I would like to cover two situations:

  • one application deployment in IIS which would handle multiple languages
  • one language/application deployment.

In first situation should you go with some kind of view based thing like, ~/View/EN, ~/View/FI, ~/View/SWE or something different?

What about second case, just application based config via Web.config and point these different languages to different URLs?

Answer

fyasar picture fyasar · Mar 16, 2010

You can also take a look here ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization complete guide and ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation With Localization these entires will help you if you working with ASP.NET MVC 2.

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