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Thursday, February 21, 2008

If you've designed, developed or worked on websites recently, you have probably come across the topic of localization. In this article, I'll show you how to implement localization in your Visual Studio .NET projects.

Most of us blanch at the idea of tailoring our pages to localize in multiple languages. The hard part of localization is, of course, the localizing. However, translating static labels and site content can be as easy as asking your user base to help. Good news though, once you've got that covered, the implementing is the easy part!

In this article, I'm going to focus on two ways of implementing localization in your .NET projects (and how to let your users choose). The first way is the "easy" way but might prove daunting in the long-term for large-scale websites. The second way is by grouping and scaling-down the amount of files to tend to. No way is best and I'll leave it up to you to decide which is better for your project.

Read more (intrepidstudios.com, Code Project)

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