How to let a vb.net application to be multi-lingual?

[LiLo]

Hi,

I am developing a vb.net cinema ticket booking system. The application is to have the option to let the user to choose which language he wants the application interface to be in. (Either English or Mandrain)

How should I go about changing the language to display?

Are there any useful links regarding this topic?

[mendhak]

Is this a windows form application or web form?

In either case, you would need to use RESX files which basically contain a list of all the 'static' strings in your application in both languages. So you'd have one RESX file for English and one for Mandarin. RESX are XML, which are Unicode, so you can store Kanji and DBCS characters quite safely in there.

Here are a few links which are ASP.NET centric, but you should be able to gather enough info from them to make it work for your windows application.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...calization.asp
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/030304-1.aspx