RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX If you develop a multilingual application, you might want to show grid headers text as per the current culture settings. This functionality is can be attained with Telerik RadGrid in the same way as with MS GridView (both controls will behave similarly when you switch the culture for the page which holds it).
The first option to localize the header text is dynamically through resource files as shown here. Another possible solution is illustrated below (note that the first example is for auto-generated columns and the second example is for declarative columns):
Example 1
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<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" AllowSorting="True"
runat="server" OnColumnCreated="RadGrid1_ColumnCreated">
<MasterTableView Width="100%" AutoGenerateColumns="True" />
</telerik:RadGrid>
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<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthwindConnectionString %>"
SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [Customers]"></asp:SqlDataSource>
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protected void RadGrid1_ColumnCreated(object sender, GridColumnCreatedEventArgs e)
{
GridColumn boundColumn = e.Column as GridColumn;
switch (boundColumn.UniqueName)
{
case "ContactName":
boundColumn.HeaderText = "My customized contact name";
break;
case "ContactTitle":
boundColumn.HeaderText = "My customized contact title";
break;
case "Address":
boundColumn.HeaderText = "My customized address";
break;
}
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Protected Sub RadGrid1_ColumnCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridColumnCreatedEventArgs) Handles RadGrid1.ColumnCreated
Dim boundColumn As GridColumn = CType(e.Column, GridColumn)
Select Case boundColumn.UniqueName
Case "ContactName"
boundColumn.HeaderText = "My customized contact name"
Case "ContactTitle"
boundColumn.HeaderText = "My customized contact title"
Case "Address"
boundColumn.HeaderText = "My customized address"
End Select
End SubExample 2
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<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid2" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2" AllowSorting="True"
runat="server" HorizontalAlign="NotSet">
<MasterTableView Width="100%" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataSourceID="AccessDataSource2">
<Columns>
<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="ContactName" HeaderText="" UniqueName="ContactName" />
<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="ContactTitle" HeaderText="" UniqueName="ContactTitle" />
<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="Address" HeaderText="" UniqueName="Address" />
</Columns>
</MasterTableView>
</telerik:RadGrid>
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<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource2" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthwindConnectionString %>"
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Protected Sub RadGrid2_ItemCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridItemEventArgs) Handles RadGrid2.ItemCreated
If TypeOf e.Item Is GridHeaderItem Then
Dim headerItem As GridHeaderItem = CType(e.Item, GridHeaderItem)
Dim button As LinkButton = CType(headerItem("ContactName").Controls(0), LinkButton)
button.Text = "My customized contact name"
button = CType(headerItem("ContactTitle").Controls(0), LinkButton)
button.Text = "My customized contact title"
button = CType(headerItem("Address").Controls(0), LinkButton)
button.Text = "My customized address"
End If
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protected void RadGrid2_ItemCreated(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Item is GridHeaderItem)
{
GridHeaderItem headerItem = e.Item as GridHeaderItem;
LinkButton button = headerItem["ContactName"].Controls[0] as LinkButton;
button.Text = "My customized contact name";
button = headerItem["ContactTitle"].Controls[0] as LinkButton;
button.Text = "My customized contact title";
button = headerItem["Address"].Controls[0] as LinkButton;
button.Text = "My customized address";
}
}