I did something similar recently.
I stored all the values in a Singleton which contains a dictionary of values
and then I used an Enum as an indexer.
I also had to give each name a singular or plural meaning.
It relies on the FillDictionary method being called. This means you can fill
it with any resource.
I then can access it like this:
StructureDictionary.Instance[Structure.BusinessFunction].Singrular;
or
StructureDictionary.Instance[Structure.BusinessFunction].Plural;
Here is the class
public sealed class StructureDictionary
{
#region members
private Dictionary<Structure, StructureNameLookUp> _lookUpDictionary = new
Dictionary<Structure, StructureNameLookUp>();
private static readonly StructureDictionary _instance = new
StructureDictionary();
#endregion
#region static properties
public static StructureDictionary Instance
{
get { return _instance; }
}
#endregion
#region public properties
public bool Empty
{
get { return (_lookUpDictionary.Count == 0); }
}
#endregion
#region public methods
public void FillDictionary(IList<StructureNameLookUp> lookUps)
{
for (int i = 0; i < lookUps.Count; i++)
_lookUpDictionary.Add((Structure)i, lookUps[i]);
}
#endregion
#region indexers
public StructureNameLookUp this[Structure structure]
{
get
{
if (_lookUpDictionary.Count == 0)
throw new Exception("The internal look up list has not been set. You need to
call FillDictionary");
return _lookUpDictionary[structure];
}
}
#endregion
}
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> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:19:30 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:
> [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Multiple UI versions....but not quite multilingual....> To:
> [email protected]> > I've got an application that I want to
> install for multiple clients....all> use English as the principle language
> but each client has (different)> specific terms for specific domain specific
> things...> > e.g. what is ones clients 'IS department' is 'Technology' for
> another> client.> > so the functionality of the system is the same for each
> client, but I need> to tweak the UI.> > Any recommendations, I've seen people
> put terms in the database...which> seems clumsy and slow (but that was
> probably the way they did it), I am> aware it is possible to create different
> resources for 'multilingual'> apps, but is this technology tied to
> Globablisation.culture....> > Any suggestions?> >
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