MVC and Globalization

Question

I have some code that when I step through changes the CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture , but does not take the relevant string from .resx file, it just takes the one from the default culture. Can anybody help, this is my code :

<map id="langs" name="langselect">
            <area shape="rect" coords="0,0,18,11" alt="en-GB" onmouseover="tooltip.show('en-GB', 60);" onmouseout="tooltip.hide();" onclick="setCulture('en-GB');" />
            <area shape="rect" coords="25,1,41,11" alt="fi-FI" onmouseover="tooltip.show('fi-FI', 48);" onmouseout="tooltip.hide();" onclick="setCulture('fi-FI');"  />
        </map>

function setCulture(culture) {

    $.post('/Gameplan/MainGP/SetCulture', { culture: culture }, function (result) {

    });

}

public void SetCulture(string culture)
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(culture);
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(culture);

    }

EDIT : I have added the following code, but I still have the same issue :

public void SetCulture(string culture)
    {
        Session["Culture"] = culture;
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(Session["Culture"].ToString());
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(Session["Culture"].ToString());
    }

protected void Application_AcquireRequestState(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(Session["Culture"].ToString());
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(Session["Culture"].ToString());
    }

Answer 1

You need to save the culture somewhere (cookie/session/whatever) and apply it on every request.

In ASP.Net MVC in the global.asax AquireRequestState seems to be an OK place to put the code to apply the culture.