Hello,

And another question from me. We have a web service that has many functions. One of its functions is to keep in one place all multi-language string values. So I can’t make use of the Umbraco Dictionary functions. The reason is that we will build in the future other presentation channels (like native apple code and android code and so on) that will not have Umbraco at all. But we still want a single point where we keep the display texts for all presentation channels.

The second point I want to make before I ask the question is. I like to use only Umbraco and Razor to make the code. So I do not want to make user controls (I think that’s old technology).

I did build a c# library that gets all the multi-language strings for a form and saves the data in the current httpcontext (see code below)

        public static bool SetTextGroupInContext(string groupIdentifier, int language)

        {

            try

            {

                MultiLanguageText[] languageItems = GetPublicTextResource(groupIdentifier, language);

                foreach (MultiLanguageText languageItem in languageItems)

                {

                    System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Items.Add(languageItem.TextIdent, languageItem.Text);

                }

                return true;

            }

            catch

            {

                return false;

            }

        }

        private static MultiLanguageText[] GetPublicTextResource(string groupIdentifier, int language)

        {

            Spilter400ServiceClient client = new Spilter400ServiceClient();

            MultiLanguageText[] result = client.GetPublicTextResource(groupIdentifier, language);

            return result;

        }

To use it i have a razor script that gets the data back into the form. This works fine except for controls. It turns out that you can not set the control property text with a razor script.

So I made code that I call at the end of the form. This code loops through all controls and if it has the ID that I look for it will change the text property. (see code below). What I like to know is: Is there a more easy solution for this problem?

        public static void SetControlText(string controlID, string textIdentifier)

        {

            Page page = HttpContext.Current.Handler as Page;

            foreach (Control control in page.Form.Controls)

            {

                SetControlText(control, controlID, textIdentifier);

                SetControlText(control.Controls, controlID, textIdentifier);

            }

        }

        private static void SetControlText(Control control, string controlID, string textIdentifier)

        {

            if (control.ID == controlID)

            {

                if (control.GetType().ToString() == "System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button")

                {

                    System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button currentButton = (System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button)control;

                    currentButton.Text = (string)System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Items[textIdentifier];

                }

                // future other control types

            }

        }

Met vriendelijke groet,

Frank Gillebaard