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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:33:40+00:00

I need to store localized entities in a database (for instance a Product, which

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I need to store localized entities in a database (for instance a Product, which has a Name, which is different in English and Danish). There are several well-known ways to do this, for instance having some sort of a resource table containing the values of the localized columns.

However, this does not seem to be very easy to fit into an ORM, when I want to retrieve an instance of the Product class in the English language and expect the value of the Name property to be English.

I don’t want to reinvent the wheel, and I think this is a problem that must be very common.
Does any ORM support entity localization out-of-the box ?

Since I am on the Microsoft stack, and obvious choice for an ORM would be Entity Framework 4. Are there any features in EF4 to support this ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    AFAIK EF4 does not provide anything like this.

    Dmitri Maximov has written a good series of post covering implementation of localization for DataObjects.Net, the info there may be helpful for you even if you’re using (or going to use) any other framework:

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