Localization in WPF Gantt

25 Jun 20241 minute to read

Localization is the process of translating the application resources into different language for the specific cultures. You can localize the GanttControl by adding resource file. Application culture can be changed by setting CurrentUICulture and CurrentCulture before InitializeComponent() method.

In the below application, culture is configured to French language.

C#

public MainWindow()
{
    System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr");

    System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr");

    InitializeComponent();
}

To localize the GanttControl based on CurrentUICulture using resource files, follow the below steps.

1.Create new folder and named as Resources in your application.
2.Add the default resource file of GanttControl into Resources folder. You can download the Syncfusion.Gantt.WPF.resx here.

3.Right-click on the Resources folder, select Add and then NewItem.

4.In Add New Item wizard, select the Resource File option and name the filename as Syncfusion.Gantt.WPF.<culture name>.resx.

For example, you have to give name as Syncfusion.Gantt.WPF.fr.resx for French culture.

5.The culture name that indicates the name of language and country.

6.Now, select Add option to add the resource file in Resources folder.

7.Add the Name/Value pair in Resource Designer of Syncfusion.Gantt.WPF.fr.resx file and change its corresponding value to corresponding culture.

You can download the sample for localization of Gantt from here