How to localize DataAnnotations

Question

Adding a Display Attribute to a property then having the DataField automatically do its tooltip magic makes for a great demo. But for those of us in multilingual countries how is that to be localized?

Answer 1

It looks like the DisplayAttribute has support for localization.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.dataannotations.displayattribute.resourcetype%28v=VS.95%29.aspx

For this attribute, you can set the Name property to be a resource key, and then set the ResourceType property to the type of your resources class.