Localization for [Required(...)] attribute

The CustomerModel class has ErrorMessages for Required and StringLength attributes that are hardcoded english strings.

/// <summary>     
/// Customer Model class.     
/// Properties have data annotations used for Validation and Display.     
/// </summary>     
public class CustomerModel
{
    /// <summary>         
    /// The Customer Identifier.         
    /// </summary>         
    [DisplayName("Id")]
    public int CustomerId { get; set; }

        


    /// <summary>
    /// Customer Company name.
    /// </summary>         
    [DisplayName("Company Name")]
    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Company Name is required.")]
    [StringLength(30, ErrorMessage = "Company Name can be at most 30 characters")]
    public string CompanyName { get; set; }
}

What about error messages in other languages?

M S, Sep 08, 2010

Reply 1

Localization is a fairly large topic, but essentially it is supported throughout .NET. As such, the Design Pattern Framework supports localization.

To get the errormessage to display in a different language you need something like this:

[Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.Errors), 
          ErrorMessageResourceName = "CompanyName_Required")]

Remember that in ASP.NET you also need to set the current culture on the Thread, like so:.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr");

Here is a link to a discussion on these issues (but you can easily find many more references on localization).

http://forums.asp.net/p/1433699/3264915.aspx

I hope this gets you going.

Dan McMillan, Sep 10, 2010