Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to localize websites for different languages and culture. In the first section, you learned how to use the Culture and UICulture properties to set the current culture for the page. You also learned how to set these properties automatically by detecting a browser's preferred language settings.

Next, you learned how to create local resource files that you can apply to particular pages (and other files). You learned how to use both explicit and implicit localization expressions. You also saw how you can programmatically retrieve local resource entries in your code.

You then studied the topic of global resource files, which contain entries that can be used within any page in a website. You learned to use explicit resource expressions with global resources and how to retrieve global resource entries programmatically.

Finally, you had a brief look at the ASP.NET Localize control. You learned how to use this control to localize big chunks of text in a page.