Localization in WPF

Question

I am starting a new application in WPF and I am curious how to handle Localization? In WinForms you can use resx strings for the UI text, how is this done in WPF? Is there a special binding syntax for binding to resx resources or is there a different way of doing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms788718.aspx. The article explains nicely how localization in WPF works.

Answer 2

There is a good article on codeproject explaining how to do WPF localization using RESX files:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPF_Resx_Localization.aspx

Answer 3

Hi,

you can use a MarkupExtension to do localization with dynamic language switching. Here is an interesting article about this:

http://www.wpftutorial.net/LocalizeMarkupExtension.html

Answer 4

Here is another article about WPF localization with the "old" stable ResX files:

Best Practices: Localize a WPF application