Multiple language in a C# windows application

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I am doing a windows application for satisfaction survey.The requirement is that ,I need the questions in English and Arabic language. I have done in English language,its wrkng fine..Now If they want to give the survey in Arabic language,then they should have the option for it.

Really I dont know how to include 2 languages in a project.

Please help me!!!!

Posted 5-Dec-11 19:44pm

lilian87

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D K N T H 6-Dec-11 1:57am

are you using windows app? , please provide more details for us to help you.. thanks

lilian87 6-Dec-11 2:32am

Ya, im using win app..
How to add 2 languages in a project?
In a form,I have a combbobox to select language -english and arabic. If the customer selects english the form must be in english,and if he selects arabic it must be in arabic.

Help ME!!

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Anuj Banka · Answer 1 · 2011-12-05T20:28:00

Frined jst go through this link it will help you.Its for website but the process for getting values from resource file will remain same:::

Creating multilingual websites - Part 1[^]

You have make changes in your application .

You need to put all string values in resource files.And have to create two diffrent resource files for each language.

And on page_load you can set the string values from the slected language Resource file for each page.

Mehdi Gholam · Answer 2 · 2011-12-05T20:31:00

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Read the following :

Globalization of Windows Applications in 20 Minutes Using C#[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b28bx3bh%28v=vs.80%29.aspx[^]

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=174[^]

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/locale/[^]

Posted 5-Dec-11 20:31pm

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Uday P.Singh 6-Dec-11 2:45am

5ed :)

Mehdi Gholam 6-Dec-11 2:46am

Cheers

lilian87 7-Dec-11 3:57am

Thanks mehdi for the links.. :)

Mehdi Gholam 7-Dec-11 4:06am

Cheers

lilian87 7-Dec-11 4:05am

I got the form translated to arabic and english..
Bt now my question is, how to type arabic words in textboxes ?
And again I want to save the arabic contents to database in english.

Can u help me??

Mehdi Gholam 7-Dec-11 4:08am

Your clients must have the Arabic keyboards installed, on Windows you can change the keyboard language by pressing ALT + RIGHT SHIFT

lilian87 8-Dec-11 9:56am

i used %+ for altering languages..

lilian87 8-Dec-11 10:00am

Now i have another issue.. i want to save the arabic contents to my db (sql server 2005).While Im saving its showing question marks '???'. I want both language support in sql server 2005.

Can u pls help me?? Urgent!!

Mehdi Gholam 8-Dec-11 13:32pm

You have to set the collation in sql server see here : http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/6627/sql-server-2008-collation-arabic

karylle · Answer 3 · 2011-12-05T20:38:00

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How did you make the application with English language? Did you hard code all the control texts?

I suggest you create 2 XML files, 1 for the English language and another 1 for the Arabic language that would look something like this:

HTML

<captions>
 <form1 controlid="btnCancel" text="Cancel" />
 <form1 controlid="btnOK" text="OK" />
</captions>

This will need you to make another class to read the XML file and use it to load the controls' texts though.

Hope this helps. :)

Posted 5-Dec-11 20:38pm

karylle

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lilian87 6-Dec-11 2:51am

Can you please help me in writing the xml file for arabic language?
Please!!!

karylle 6-Dec-11 2:54am

You can just translate your existing English language captions using google translate.

lilian87 6-Dec-11 3:34am

thanks!! ive translated the titles in arabic..

Sorry to ask you again.. :(
But what about the text that is coming from database? How to convert it?

karylle 6-Dec-11 3:44am

I'd suggest creating another table using the translated version of your English data.

Have you tried looking into the articles above? it might also give you some ideas. :)

lilian87 7-Dec-11 3:58am

ya, igot it.. thanks for the reply!!

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