Question

This is my first try in globalization of windows forms, so I created form in my language and set property Localizable to true and left property Language on default, everything generated in default resource file, which was nice. After that I added new resource file called FormName.en.resx and renamed few stuff here just to test how it is working, but now everytime I run appliction It is using the English file that I added instead of default FormName.resx file, if I delete English resource file, everything goes back to normal, did I miss something?

First I thought that Windows is causing it but my languge is set correctly, I even tried changing Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture manually but it always stays in English.

Answer 1

Well this is a dirty way to do it I assume, but here it is if someone bumps into the same problem:

 private void ChangeLanguage(string lang)
        {       
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(lang);
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(lang);

            //YourFormType should be the name of your form
            ComponentResourceManager resources = new ComponentResourceManager(typeof(YourFormType));
            resources.ApplyResources(this, "$this");

            foreach (Control control in this.Controls)
            {
                resources.ApplyResources(control , control.Name);
            }
        }

If someone has better solution please post it and I will try it