Question

I am just extending my this question a bit.

I have my App_LocalResources in my MVC web application (I don’t have it in separate dll).

I have a my Model in different assembly. In the Model I have 2 classes Country and City:

public class Country: MyContainer
{
    public City city {get;set;}
} 

public class City
{
    public CityName {get;set;}
}

public class MyContainer
{
    public Cid {get;set;}
}

So in my action method I create and pass an object of country as my viewmodel.

And in the view I use this:

@Html.LabelFor(mdl=>mdl.City.CityName)
@Html.LabelFor(mdl=>mdl.Cid)

So this works well and label with text are rendered in English.

But how do I modify this so that it reads the text from my Resource files in my web application?

Answer 1

You could write a custom display attribute:

public class LocalizedDisplayNameAttribute : DisplayNameAttribute
{
    public LocalizedDisplayNameAttribute(string key): base(FormatMessage(key))
    {
    }

    private static string FormatMessage(string key)
    {
        // TODO: fetch the corresponding string from your resource file
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

and then:

public class City
{
    [LocalizedDisplayName("cityname")]
    public string CityName { get; set; }
}

You may also checkout the following localization guide. It provides a full implementation of a sample attribute.