Best way to localized applications in .NET 2.0?

[cyberjoe2]

Hi,

I would like to ask you what is the best way to localize applications in .NET 2.0 and

how Microsoft do it in Vista?

cyberjoe

[CoffeeFiend]

It's easy. But I'm not sure what exactly you want to do. You're posing in a web dev section (suggesting ASP.NET apps which run on a web server), and then asking how it's done in Vista (which has nothing to do with the previous part). I'll assume it was an ASP.NET question.

I'm not going to bother explaining it all in detail as there's already countless articles doing so. Try MS' own QuickStarts tutorial here. Everything is thoroughly documented (MSDN2), pretty much all community sites have related tutorials too, google can find more results than you'll ever need, there's MS' newsgroups, etc.

You can use the user profiles to store language preferences, URL rewriting (using a HTTP module e.g. www.yoursite.com/en-US/whatever), or even the browser Accept-Language.