How to make multilanguage C# console application?

Question

I want to create console application in Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express that will have support for a few languages: it will show messages in selected language. What is the simpliest and convenient way to make it international-ready?

Answer 1

Your best bet is to use assembly resource files using the project menu then add resources to your file.

To use the language specific resources in your program:

System.Resources.ResourceManager mgr = new
    System.Resources.ResourceManager("MyConsoleApp.MyResource",
    System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()) ;

Console.WriteLine ( mgr.GetString ("resourceName"));

Console.ReadLine ();

Answer 2

Use satellite assemblies as shown in this MS article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa645513%28VS.71%29.aspx

Answer 3

Principally, you want to be using Resource files. This link should put you on the right path:

http://www.jelovic.com/articles/resources_in_visual_studio.htm

Once you've got resx files for your different languages, the ResourceManager class has a GetString method that takes a CultureInfo object, so it would return the right translation for the current culture, or the fallback value if there's no resource of that name in the translated resx file.