German Localized Strings Now Available in NetAdvantage 10.2

In the 10.2 release NetAdvantage now support localized strings in German. This post explains how to setup Silverlight and WPF applications to render German control strings.

    Note: If you are developing with the German release of Visual Studio 2010 running on a German OS, then these changes are unnecessary and the German resource strings will appear automatically.

Silverlight

The below image represents how the xamGrid looks in German:

To localize a Silverlight application, you must make changes in two places: in the project file and in the HTML markup. To edit the project file, begin by unloading the Silverlight project from the solution:

Then right-click on the project name and select Edit:

Look for the SupportedCultures node under PropertyGroup. Add “de” as content to the element:

Next, reload the Silverlight project:

Finally, locate the ASPX or HTML file that is hosting the Silverlight content. Add a parameter to the object tag that instantiates the Silverlight plug-in with a name of uiculture with the value of de:

Now when you launch your Silverlight application the German resources are used for any strings returned from Infragistics controls.

WPF

The steps to localize a WPF application are decidedly shorter. Below is an image of how the xamDataGrid looks with resource strings localized in German:

To achieve this effect add the following code to the OnStartUp method in the App.xaml.cs file:

using System.Globalization;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows;

public partial class App : Application
{
    protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnStartup(e);

        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE", false);
    }
}