Localizing Silverlight application using resources - windows-phone-7

Question

I have a problem with localization of Silverlight application using resources. I wanted to make my multilingual mechanizm to be cross platform thats why I placed all localizable resources in project of type Portable Class Library.
In this project I created two resource files
Localization.resx and Localization.en.resx and I set and "access modifier" to public in both files. Then I created the proxy class called "LocalizationProxy" which is a proxy class to enable bindings.
public class LocalizationProxy : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
public Localization LocalizationManager { get; private set; }
public LocalizationProxy()
{
LocalizationManager = new Localization();
}
public void ResetResources()
{
OnPropertyChanged(() => LocalizationManager);
}
#region INotifyPropertyChanged region
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
public void OnPropertyChanged<T>(Expression<Func<T>> selector)
{
if (PropertyChanged != null)
{
PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(GetPropertyNameFromExpression(selector)));
}
}
public static string GetPropertyNameFromExpression<T>(Expression<Func<T>> property)
{
var lambda = (LambdaExpression)property;
MemberExpression memberExpression;
if (lambda.Body is UnaryExpression)
{
var unaryExpression = (UnaryExpression)lambda.Body;
memberExpression = (MemberExpression)unaryExpression.Operand;
}
else
{
memberExpression = (MemberExpression)lambda.Body;
}
return memberExpression.Member.Name;
}
#endregion
}
In the next step I modifed Silverlight csproj file and added "en" culture to supported types
<SupportedCultures>en</SupportedCultures>
Furthermore in application resources I created and instance of LocalizationProxy class
<Application.Resources>
<Localization:LocalizationProxy x:Key="LocalizationProxy"></Localization:LocalizationProxy>
</Application.Resources>
I also changed "Neutral Language" in Assembly Information to "Polish" - this should be default application language. In the last step I bouned some values from view to the resources
<TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" x:Name="PageTitle" Text="{Binding Source={StaticResource LocalizationProxy},Path=LocalizationManager.Title,Mode=TwoWay}" />
Unfortunatelly despite the fact that Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture is "pl-PL" my application is still in English language.However if I use the same code in Windows Phone application everything works fine - I can even change application language in runtime. Is there any difference in localizing Silverlight application and localizing Windows Phone apps ?
Here is my application
http://www.fileserve.com/file/TkQkAhV/LocalizationSolution.rar
As I mentioned before, Localization in Windows Phone works fine, but in Silverlight application labels are not translated

Answer 1

You should use the fully qualified ISO 3166 and 639 codes combined with a hyphen as Rumplin describes.
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

Answer 2

make sure you made all the steps bellow properly.
Create your ViewModel Class
Implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface:
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
{
if (PropertyChanged != null)
{
PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
}
}
Create the property that will return the right language:
public object MainResourcesSmart
{
get
{
var myCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name.ToUpper();
switch (myCulture)
{
case "EN-US":
return new MyResourceEn();
case "ES-AR":
return new MyResourceEs();
default:
return new MyResource();
}
}
}
Set all resources to public
Use the method bellow to refresh it on screen every time you change the language:
private void MainResourcesSmartRefresh()
{
OnPropertyChanged("MainResourcesSmart");
}
Bind the ViewModel to your View (MainPage) for example:
public MyViewModel ViewModel
{
get { return (MyViewModel)DataContext; }
set { DataContext = value; }
}
public MainPage()
{
ViewModel = new MyViewModel();
}
Bind the Resouce property to your UserControl like:
<TextBlock Height="20" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Foreground="#7F4F8AB2" FontSize="10.667" Text="{Binding MainResourcesSmart.NameOfTheCompany}" FontFamily="Trebuchet MS" />