Question

i need to localize a Reporting Services-report (.rdlc) and i would like to do it using a ressource-file (.resx).
I found pages like this and that and they use custom code to achieve their target.
But pages like Setting the Report Language Parameter in a URL give me the impression that localization in reports is possible without custom code.

So, it is possible to localize a Reporting Services-report without custom code ?
If so, is there a tutorial that explains how it’s done?

Answer 1

What in the report do you want to localize?

• values from the database? Those should be retrieved from the database in the appropriate language already

• fixed labels and textboxes on the report? I have not yet seen any compelling way to doing this – you can either have

  • one report “skeleton” / template per language (and pick the one you need)
  • if the number of elements is manageable, define report parameters which you can set from the calling code, to set the labels and texts
  • use some custom .NET extension for handling localization

It’s not really an awfully pretty picture, indeed – I’d be most interested in better solutions myself! (I typically need to support 3-4 languages for any report – and I’m using only server-based .RDL files, no .RDLC, so any localization that depends on client-side resource files is not usable in my case)