Question

I have a WPF window and many labels are using localized strings. For example :

<Window x:Class="CoHOLauncher.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:s="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
        xmlns:l="clr-namespace:MyNameSpace"
        xmlns:loc="clr-namespace:MyNameSpace.Localization">

<Label Grid.Column="0" Content="{x:Static loc:Strings.MainWindowSize}" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>

Details of the Strings class as follow :

public class Strings {
        private static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo resourceCulture;
        public static global::System.Resources.ResourceManager ResourceManager {
            get {
                if (object.ReferenceEquals(resourceMan, null)) {
                    global::System.Resources.ResourceManager temp = new global::System.Resources.ResourceManager("MyNameSpace.Localization.Strings", typeof(Strings).Assembly);
                    resourceMan = temp;
                }
                return resourceMan;
            }
        }

    public static global::System.Globalization.CultureInfo Culture {
        get {
            return resourceCulture;
        }
        set {
            resourceCulture = value;
        }
    }

        public static string MainWindowSize {
            get {
                return ResourceManager.GetString("MainWindowSize", resourceCulture);
            }
        }
}

If I changed Strings.Culture in run time, how to force WPF to reload all strings ?

I store all strings in a localization satellite DLL assemblies , which are generated from localized resource files .

Answer 1

You would have to change the binding source from an x:Static value and somehow expose the localized strings through a property that provides value change notifications.