ASP.NET Setting Culture with InitializeCulture
- by Helen
I have a website with three domains .com, .de and .it
Each domain needs to default to the local language/culture of the country.
I have created a base page and added an InitializeCulture
Protected Overrides Sub InitializeCulture()
Dim url As System.Uri = Request.Url
Dim hostname As String = url.Host.ToString()
Dim SelectedLanguage As String
If HttpContext.Current.Profile("PreferredCulture").ToString Is Nothing Then
Select Case hostname
Case "www.domain.de"
SelectedLanguage = "de"
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo(SelectedLanguage)
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(SelectedLanguage)
Case "www.domain.it"
SelectedLanguage = "it"
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo(SelectedLanguage)
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(SelectedLanguage)
Case Else
SelectedLanguage = "en"
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo(SelectedLanguage)
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(SelectedLanguage)
End Select
End If
End Sub
This is fine. The problem now occurs because we also want three language selection buttons on the home page so that the user can override the domain language.
So on my Default.asp.vb we have three button events like this...
Protected Sub langEnglish_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.ImageClickEventArgs) Handles langEnglish.Click
Dim SelectedLanguage As String = "en"
'Save selected user language in profile
HttpContext.Current.Profile.SetPropertyValue("PreferredCulture", SelectedLanguage)
'Force re-initialization of the page to fire InitializeCulture()
Context.Server.Transfer(Context.Request.Path)
End Sub
But of course the InititalizeCulture then overrides whatever button selection has been made. Is there any way that the InitialCulture can check whether a button click has occurred and if so skip the routine?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
