Can we make enum multilingual in asp.net with c#

Question

I am working on multilingual site and in which i used some enum and now it can be possible that we can make theses enum as per multilingual?

My enum structure is

public enum abc
{
  [Description{"multilingual text"}]
  StatucActive = 1
}

like this. i want to write multilingual text in description.

Answer 1

You should follow the steps:

(1) prepare the resource files eg resource.en-US.resx / resource.zh-CN.resx /etc. Each resource file has keys and values, their keys are the same between files, values are different in languages.

(2) define your own DescriptionAttribute , something like this:

public class LocalDescriptionAttribute : DescriptionAttribute
{
    public string ResourceKey { get; set; }
    public string CultureCode { get; set; }
    //you can set a default value of CultureCode
    //so that you needn't set it everywhere
    public override string Description
    {
        get
        {
            //core of this attribute
            //first find the corresponding resource file by CultureCode
            //and then get the description text by the ResourceKey
        }
    }
}

The usage:

public enum MyTexts
{
    [LocalDescription(CultureCode="zh-CN", ResourceKey="Title")]
    Title = 0,
    [LocalDescription(ResourceKey="Status")]   //default CultureCode
    Status = 1
}

Answer 2

No we can't use enum as a multilingual but i have an alternate option that is use resource file it working like an enum in some situations.

please try resource file and it will solve your problem....

Answer 3

An easy way to translate an enumerated would be to create an array of values for each language you want.

String language1[] = {"value","value2"};

String language2[] = {"other value","other value2"};

String multi = language2[enumvalue];

Your enum value become the index to your string array of translations.