Question

I have a site that supports localization. I would like to be able to switch between English and French.

Let say the user is currently at URL:
http://www.example.com/**en**/Home

I would like to redirect to:
http://www.example.com/**fr**/Home

If the user click on a "French" link how to change the URL part to "fr" yet not change the "Home" part of the URL (basically I want preserve the current location of the user)

Hope my question makes sense! I’m probably missing something very basic?

EDIT: Kind of found a solution.

<%= Html.ActionLink("Français", ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString(), ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString(), new { culture = "fr" }, null)%>
<%= Html.ActionLink("English", ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString(), ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString(), new { culture = "en" }, null)%>

This maintains the action/controller of the current URL. Maybe there’s a cleaner solution?

Answer 1

In your Global.asax

 routes.MapRoute(
   name: "LocalizedRoute",
   url: "{language}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
   defaults:
     new
     {
       language= "fr",
       controller = "Home",
       action = "Index",
       id = UrlParameter.Optional 
     },
   constraints: new { language= @"[a-z]{2}" });

And you can have access to the language with the variable language in your controller

To generate a link:

<%= Html.ActionLink("French", ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"], new { language = "fr" }) %>

And you can make a base class controller with this property:

public string Language { get { return this.Routedata["language"]; } }