How to localize ASP .Net MVC application?

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Published on 2008-10-10T17:59:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 9:15 UTC
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What would be best practice to localize your ASP .Net MVC application ?

I would like to cover two situations:

one application deployment in IIS which would handle multiple languages
one language / application deployment.

In first situation should you go with somekind of view based thing like, ~/View/EN, ~/View/FI, ~/View/SWE or something different ?

What about second case, just application based config via Web.config and point these different languages to different urls ?

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