Programmatically set Culture of User Controls in ASP.NET

Question

I'd like to programmatically set the culture of my User Control which defines several Labels, Buttons and Textboxes ...

Usually, for aspx-pages you override the InitializeCulture-Method and set Culture and UICulture to achieve this, alas ASCX-Controls do not have this Method, so how exactly would I do this?

I've set up the local resources mycontrol.ascx.de-DE.resx, mycontrol.ascx.resx and mycontrol.ascx.en-GB.resx but only the values of the default file (mycontrol.ascx.resx) are used.

Thanks in advance.

Dennis

Answer 1

I also spent hours on this problem and finally got This solution. You only have to override the FrameworkInitialize() instead of initilizeculture(), eg:

protected override void FrameworkInitialize()
{
    String selectedLanguage = LanguageID;
    Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(selectedLanguage);
    Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(selectedLanguage);

    base.FrameworkInitialize();
}

Jus Put this code inside your ascx.cs file, This override function does not need to be called.