If you don't want to pay for Google paid service (please see Solution 1 by Tim Corey), you can still use the Google Translate Web page itself,
http://translate.google.com/[
^].
As you can note, the text to be translated and language IDs are passed to this page via the URL parameters. You can send HTTP request using the class
System.Net.HttpWebRequest, read HTTP response and parse it to extract the translation. Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.aspx[
^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webrequest.aspx[
^] (see HTTP code sample here).
This is a bit ugly but will work. This is a very simple case of
Web scraping,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping[
^].
Please see also my past answers to related questions:
get specific data from web page[
^],
How to get the data from another site[
^].
—SA
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