ASP.NET MVC 5 Internationalization

Question

I'm starting a new solution in ASP.NET MVC5 and I'll have to implement internationalization for the whole views.

The best article I found so far that explains how to well implement ASP.NET MVC 5 Internationalization was this one. I also read this one.

Anyway I still have some questions that I'd like the ask here in order to make sure about the best practices of internationalization which ones I still haven't found clearly answers on web.

1. Where should I put my local (resources for a specific view) .resx files? App_LocalResources folder? ItemView folder with all the other files? Where exactly and why?
2. How can I access my local resources values? Should I put them over the same App_GlobalResources namespace's .resx files (namespace Resources)?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

According to MSDN, local resources are a concept relative to .aspx views.

In MVC, it is recommended to avoid App_GlobalResources and App_LocalResources. A great answer/explanation regarding this can be found here.

Alternatives to App_*Resources include:

Properties > Resources

Resources Folder

Resources Project

Answer 2

You can simply put your resource files in a custom folder. I created a "resources" folder and it works like a charm.

To access values, here an example for an action link:

@Html.ActionLink(Resources.Labels.Archivio, "Archivio", "Home")

Note you don't specify the Language, because MVC takes the locale loaded into the current thread

        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(cultureName);
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;