Question

What’s the best practice for converting very large windows solution to multi-language .

There are hundreds of windows a lots of labels, combo etc.

We are using devxpress components (not layout) .

Answer 1

if u want to use DB for localize then a can give advise:

Create 4 tables
1.ProjectKeyWords(KW_ID, LNGID, Value);
2.Pages (PageID, PageName);
3.Labels (LabelID, LabelName, KW_ID);
4.Application_Labels(PageID, LabelID);
5.Langs (ID, NAME);

sample:
ProjectKeyWords 1, 1, FirstName (In English)
2, 1, LastName (In English)
1, 2, Имя(In Russian)
2, 2, Фамилия(In Russian)
1, 1, Adı(In Azerbaijan)
2, 1, Soyadı(In Azerbaijan)
Pages –> 1, Form1
2, Form2

Labels –> 1, lblFirstName ,1
1, lblLastName ,2

Application_Labels –> 1,1
1,2
2,1
2,2

Langs –> 1, Eng
2, Rus
3, Az

And in Form_Load() event u can Create SQLQuery as “

SELECT L.LabelName, PKW.Value
FROM Labels L, Pages P, Application_Labels A_L, ProjectKeyWords PKW
WHERE P.NAME=
AND PKW.LNG_ID=
AND A_L.PageID=P.ID
AND A_L.LabelID=L.LabelID

“

create iteration and find All controls with L.LabelName with FindControl method and set PKW.Value to this label Text Property