The scenario here is I want to apply localization to my web application and place language selection on MasterPage. I have made my own solution and applied this with assistance of cookies. View demo.

I'll demonstrate that in my sample. The sample has a MasterPage bellow is a snippet from its ASPX code:

   1: <form id="form1" runat="server">

   2:     <div>

   3:         <asp:DropDownList ID="cmbCulture" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" 

   4:             OnSelectedIndexChanged="cmbCulture_SelectedIndexChanged">

   5:             <asp:ListItem Value="en-US">English</asp:ListItem>

   6:             <asp:ListItem Value="ar-EG">Arabic</asp:ListItem>

   7:             <asp:ListItem Value="de-DE">German</asp:ListItem>

   8:         </asp:DropDownList>        

   9:         <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="cph" runat="server"/>

  10:     </div>

  11: </form>

Simply when the user selects his language from the DropDownList the page post backs and change the language. More...

Refering to my previous post "Working with System.Web.UI.WebResourceAttribute". During surfing in ASP.NET forums I noticed a question about this issue! and in the question it is mentioned that the way I descriped didn't work. I noticed also that the guy was using VB.NET not C# on which I was working on!!

The deference, or the issue came up because C# & VB.Net treat or compile resources in deferent ways -this is my own observation-. Return to the issue post on ASP.NET Forums to know what was exactly the problemand how it was resolved.

You may've heared about new ASP.NET 2.0 System.Web.UI.WebResourceAttribute class. It defines the metadata attribute that enables an embedded resource in an assembly. It is valid only when used on assembly declarations and it is used to enable a specified embedded resource in an assembly for use as a Web resource.

For example, suppose you are building a web server control, or custom HttpHandler that would render some javascript "js" files and may few images etc...
Where you would store these files "resources"?! The answer is you can embed them in your assembly and reference them as web resources from your code.

To register a resource as WebResource you would use this line of code, you can do that in AssemblyInfo file:

[assembly: System.Web.UI.WebResource("imagename.jpg", "image/jpeg")]

For more information about WebResource parameter, please return to MSDN, currenlty I can mention that the 1st on is the resource name, and the 2nd one is the content-type of the resource, in our case it is an image so the content type is image/jpeg. If your resouece file is javascript, then the content-type would be text/javascript

And you can reference your resource using ClientScriptManager class through Page.ClientScript Property as the following

string resUrl = this.Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl(typeof(YouControlType), "imagename.jpg");

Now use your resUrl to display your image!.... BUT WAIT, this is not going to work!!

If you followed the MSDN code while you are VS.NET this is not going to work at all, your image or your resource file never appear.
Here are the Rule:

1. You should know your Assembly default namespace.
2. Recognize where exactly your resource file located in your project, "Its Path"
3. Define the correct resource name.

Suppose your default namespace is Moses.WebControls, while your resource file name is ComboBox.js, this file is located on a folder named Resources/Scripts in your project -Dont care about your project name or assembly name, just focus on your Default namespace name-.

Now your resource file should be name "Moses.WebControls.Resources.Scripts.ComboBox.js".

The rule simpley is [Default namespace].[Resource Path from the project root -replace '/' with '.' of course-].[Resource FileName]

So you'll register your WebResource as the following:

[assembly: System.Web.UI.WebResource("Moses.WebControls.Resources.Scripts.ComboBox.js", "text/javascript")]

And you can get your resource URL as the following:

string resUrl = this.Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl(typeof(YouControlType), "Moses.WebControls.Resources.Scripts.ComboBox.js");

Hope this would help somebody

As I was working on multingual User Interface project; it was needed to generate resource files for all aspx & ascx files.
I knew that VS.NET 2005 has a local resource file generator. But it was weird when I select my ASPX page or user control and go to Tool menu and find that there are no Generate Local Resources command on the menu!

It didn't take so much time, I found the solution on ASP.NET Forums. It was simple: "he menu 'Tools > Generate Local Resources' is available when you display an aspx page or ascx". Also you must switch to design veiw before you Generate your local resources.