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Localizing resources for DevExpress ASP.NET controls

     

If you develop web applications with DevExpress' ASP.NET controls and the language used by your customers is anything other than English, this message is for you.

The ASPxGridView and other ASPx components show messages to end-users in certain situations. These messages are written in English, but can be easily translated into any other language, as explained in the Localizing Developer Express ASP.NET Controls help topic.

The popularity of our How to localize .NET Windows Forms components article has made me think about collecting language resources for our ASP.NET components. Last week I wrote the Localized resources for ASPx controls knowledgebase article with only two language packs: Italian and Polish. This language collection will certainly grow as time goes by, and you, our customers, will be able to pick up the required resources from it any time.

I invite all non-English speakers to participate. If your native language is other than English, and you don't mind contributing to the community, take the RESX files from the attachment, translate the strings into your language, and submit them back to me via the Support Center as a new Question or Suggestion. By the way, you may already have these files localized, in which case, just pack them up and send them to me if you want to help the cause. Once I get them, I'll add the new localized resources to the knowledgebase.

Published Jun 18 2009, 10:07 AM by Nick (DevExpress Support)
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June 19, 2009 12:52 AM
 

Oliver John said:

Do you see these language packs as a pure "community project" or are you doing any QA?  Can I put as much trust in the quality of them as I do in any other DevExpress component?

June 19, 2009 3:15 AM
 

Piero Marinari said:

The italian localization is quite perfect (up to 95%). Is it possible to contribute to the remainder 5%?

For examples: merge is better translated with "unisci" than "fondi"

June 19, 2009 10:25 AM
 

Elvin Chen said:

I've already finished and uploaded the Simplified Chinese [zh-CN] version.

Please check.

June 19, 2009 1:14 PM
 

Nick (DevExpress Support) said:

Thank you for your comments, guys!

Oliver: It's intended to be a community project. Our customers are familiar with UI development, so providing translations of

end-user messages should not be a problem. That's why I'm happy about the quality of these resources.

Piero: Thank you for your note. I've corrected DevExpress_Web_ASPxPivotGrid_v9_1.it.resx as you suggested.

Elvin: Thanks! I've just added your resource files to the collection.

June 19, 2009 2:54 PM
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