asp.NET how to change Session Language?

Question

Hello all, I am new to this and would like to create a few simple hyperlinks that change the session language parameter.

Then I will test against this parameter to show dynamically different page elements.

I have not been able to find any sort of tutorial discussing a simple solution for this, only full blown tutorials that are in depth with databases and everything.

I was hoping someone here might be able to simply lead me to a beginners tutorial on how to alter the Session language parameter?

Any help appreciated! thanks in advance

Answer 1

Something along this line?

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo( "pt-BR", false );

You can learn more about it here:

Globalization and localization demystified in ASP.NET 2.0

Edit:

Based on your comment bellow I now understand better what you want to do.

For the link part you can use LinkButton in your .aspx page as:

<asp:LinkButton   id="linkButton1"
                  runat="server"
                  OnCommand="LinkButton1_Click"
                  CommandArgument="pt-BR">Click Me for Portuguese from Brazil
</asp:LinkButton>

Now in your code-behind file .cs:

private void LinkButton1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    string language = e.CommandArgument.ToString();

    if(language.Equals("pt-BR"))
    {
        // Place your logic here for Portuguese-Brazil... Show or hide DIV...
    } 
}

If you wanna use Session, do this:

To store the value in Session:

private void LinkButton1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    string language = e.CommandArgument.ToString();

    Session["lang"] = language;
}

To read the value from Session:

if (Session["lang"] != null)
{ 
   if(Session["lang"].ToString().Equals("pt-BR"))
   {
       // Place your logic here for Portuguese-Brazil... Show or hide DIV...
   }
}