Best practice to make a multi language application in C#/WinForms? [closed]

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I have always used resource files for multi-language applications.
The are many articles on the web explaining how to use them.

I have used two different ways:

  • A resource file per form
  • A global resource file

The resource file / form, is easier to implement, you only need to enter the values in the resource file, but I find this approach harder to maintain, since the labels are dispersed throughout the application.

The global resource file allows you to centralise all the labels (images etc.) in one file (per language), but it means manually setting the labels in the form load. This file can also be used for error messages etc.

A question of taste…

One last point, I write programs in English and French, I use “en” and “fr” and not “en-US” and “fr-FR”. Do not complicate things, the different dilelects of English (American, English, Australian etc) have few enough differences to use only one (the same goes for French).

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