Question

I have a web application that uses localization to show either English or French for our French Canadian Customers.

It is working just fine based on the users regional settings.
We have a need however to allow the user to switch back to English if their regional settings are set to French.

Is it possible to override the users regional setting if he so desires? if so…how would I code this? (for example having a link on the layout page that says English, clicking this would then change it back to English or back to French)

Also, I am using resource files to save the text strings and using the same set of views.

Answer 1

Somewhere in your code after they click a button to select a language:

Session["customLocalization"] = "de-DE"; //Or whatever language

In your Global.asax

protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{   
    String sessionOverrideLocale;    
    if (HttpContext.Current != null && HttpContext.Current.Session != null) 
    {
        sessionOverrideLocal = (String) HttpContext.Current.Session["customLocalization"];
    } 
    if (sessionOverrideLocale != null) 
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(sessionOverrideLocale);
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(sessionOverrideLocale);
    }
}