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Saba Ahmed - 25 Mar 2005 09:21 GMT

Hi All,

I am new to this group and have just started researching about globalization. I need to convert my application so that atleast the UI parts can be customized for different languages Platfrom. By different language platform I mean I need to run it on Windows 2000 German etc..

Uptil now what I have done to test if i can convert succesfully or not is created a windows application form tunred on the localizable property to true, dropped a label gave it a value then ran the application which created the resource file for english then I changed the language to German changed the label text and its postion and ran it. The resource file for germany was created.
I can load both the assemblies through the following line

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE")

But I dont want to change this line for each platform, So I found another property InstalledUICulutre that returns the locale of the current operating System but somehow the following line is not working. I am trying to load the locale of the operating system that the application is running on i tested this by changing my regional settings to German (Germany) thourgh control panel but the InstalledUICulture property is returning english all the time. Can anybody please help me how i will solve this problem.

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Saba

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 25 Mar 2005 15:25 GMT

The InstalledUICulture is the initially installed one -- which for an MUI
system is usually English.

But the already set CurrentUICulture i based on the OS localization that is
currently in use. In what scenario is it insuffiicient?

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Hi All,

I am new to this group and have just started researching about
globalization. I need to convert my application so that atleast the UI
parts can be customized for different languages Platfrom. By different
language platform I mean I need to run it on Windows 2000 German etc..

Uptil now what I have done to test if i can convert succesfully or not is
created a windows application form tunred on the localizable property to
true, dropped a label gave it a value then ran the application which created
the resource file for english then I changed the language to German changed
the label text and its postion and ran it. The resource file for germany was
created.
I can load both the assemblies through the following line

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-DE")

But I dont want to change this line for each platform, So I found another
property InstalledUICulutre that returns the locale of the current operating
System but somehow the following line is not working. I am trying to load
the locale of the operating system that the application is running on i
tested this by changing my regional settings to German (Germany) thourgh
control panel but the InstalledUICulture property is returning english all
the time. Can anybody please help me how i will solve this problem.

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture =
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Saba

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 25 Mar 2005 22:48 GMT

I just posted a clarifying bit on the InstalledUICulture property:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/03/25/402313.aspx

HTH! :-)

MichKa

> The InstalledUICulture is the initially installed one -- which for an MUI
> system is usually English.
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> Saba

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Saba Ahmed - 31 Mar 2005 06:13 GMT

Thanks for the help. I read the article and it seems like the property is
not advised to be used. So can anybody give me an idea how I can set the
CurrentUICulture property for each platforms. I dont want to create separate
exes for each platforms that the application is to run on. Can anybody give
me any idea how I can set the CurrentUICulture property based on the
underlying platform. That is if the application is running on German Palform
it should use the German resource file that is created for it.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Saba

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 31 Mar 2005 06:56 GMT

You almost never need to set it -- the dfault that is there matches the UI
language of Windows itself, out of the box.

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> Thanks for the help. I read the article and it seems like the property is
> not advised to be used. So can anybody give me an idea how I can set the
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Saba Ahmed - 31 Mar 2005 08:49 GMT

Great!. But how do I test this thing. Can I test it by changing the Locale
from control panel > Regional Settings or this can only be tested on a
German Operating System.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards,

Saba

> You almost never need to set it -- the dfault that is there matches the UI
> language of Windows itself, out of the box.
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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 31 Mar 2005 18:02 GMT

You cannot test it by changing the user locale. You must have either a
localized OS or an MUI system that lets you change the UI language.

More info on different locales here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/02/01/364707.aspx

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