How to get all available culture names in ASP.NET application

Question

My ASP.NET application is localized (by using resources) to many cultures. What I need is to find all these cultures (in runtime) and for example fill a DropDownList.

I have code which does that in windows applications - buids collection of available cultures by seeking satellite assemblies.

But what about web apps? It's possibe to find satellite assemblies? Or this can be done some other way?

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Answer 1

Something like this should work for you ...

var ass = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();

foreach( var c in CultureInfo.GetCultures( 
  CultureTypes.SpecificCultures | 
  CultureTypes.NeutralCultures) ) 
{
  try 
  {
    var sat = ass.GetSatelliteAssembly( c );
    // Add to dropdown
   }
   catch( FileNotFoundException ) 
   {
   }
}

Answer 2

Hi,

I think your problem is to fill dropdownlist with culture.

For that you need to maintained one data file/ datatable where all supported culture is mentioned and then you can bind that with dropdownlist.

Please feel free to ask more?

Answer 3

I have idea: iterate through all ..resx files in application's virtual directory and collect different culture names this way. I haven't tried this yet, but I think this should give me expected result.

Answer 4

what culture is the name Jafar from?