Can't change month using ASP.NET globalisation

Question

I am learning Asp.Net globalisation and localisation, and I found this example.

The example is working fine, but when I change the month in the calendar, the calendar text is automatically changing to English.

I tried it with

<asp:Calendar ID="Calendar1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" 
    OnSelectedIndexChanged="language_Drp_SelectedIndexChanged">
</asp:Calendar>

But I am still having a problem. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

The example you found is not a very good one. The correct place to set the culture in ASP.NET is to override the method InitializeCulture. I normally implement that method in a common base class for all my web forms.

You could implement something like this:

protected override void InitializeCulture()
{
    if (Session["locale"] != null)
    {
        string selectedLanguage = Session["locale"];

        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(selectedLanguage);
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(selectedLanguage);
    }
    base.InitializeCulture();
}

Somewhere you have to store the selected language in the Session variable, e.g. like this:

Session["locale"] = langDropdown.SelectedValue;