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  • rik butcher avatar

    Posted on Jun 29, 2011 (permalink)

    guys, i really need some help here. after spending 5 hours on forums, and anything else i can find for Telerik, i still don't have a clue where to start.
    we've spent the last 3 years developing our website that has numerous pages, and all of those pages are full of rad Controls.
    radGrids,radFilters by themselves and on the grid. radCombo boxes. u get the idea. it's simply 99.9% Telerik (Rad) Controls.
    well, we've just been told that this whole site needs to be able to be in German as well as English & it'll be selectable when the opening page pops up(assuming a drop down).
    everything i'm reading on your site jumps back and forth from Globalization to Localization and dates back to 2006. it asks about doing this control in another language & that control in another language. you know sort of control by control.
    frankly, i have no idea where to start. i do read that english /German & French is supported right out of the box.
    i need to know how to get that out of the Telerik box.
    i've never ever worked w/ Globalization or Localization.
    can i simply do this globally? do i have to have .resx files in english and german already created and in a folder somwhere.
    do i have to do this by Control or by the page??
    i did see on Telerik Tv a guy who simply set the culture of his radGrid to Bulgarian. i dont have that property in any of our radGrids. and i can't do this statically, it has to be dynamically.
    if there's a switch somewhere, i would appreciate some real help here as i have 2 months to turn hundreds and hundreds of rad controls to display german or English depending on the selection when the user logs in.
    thanks again for any help on this
    rik

  • Answer Sebastian Sebastian admin's avatar

    Posted on Jun 30, 2011 (permalink)

    Hello Rik,

    The most convenient solution will probably be to use ASP.NET localization with resource files for our ASP.NET AJAX controls. The available localized sets we accumulated so far (apart from the localization that are part of of the components distribution) can be found in this section of our code library. Of course, you can create your own localization files in par with your needs and utilize them.

    Generally speaking, you can use them in the same manner as you will do that with regular ASP.NET server controls. Localization can be set per certain controls or on page level based on the resource files you put into practice. For specific details about certain Telerik AJAX control localization, consult with the pertinent control's documentation.

    Best regards,
    Sebastian
    the Telerik team

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