Change class instance

hey,

I try to put some text that I get out a property of a class into a label. That's no problem. But I have 2 exactly the same classes but the text in it is different (translation). My question is, how I can change the instance of the class (I don't know how to explain).

This works:

Dim id As Integer
id = Request.QueryString("id")

If id = 1 Then
Dim lang As Dutch
lang = New Dutch()
Label1.Text = lang.Welcome
End If

But I want something like this:

Dim id As Integer
id = Request.QueryString("id")

If id = 1 Then
Dim lang As Dutch
lang = New Dutch()
End If

If id = 2 Then
Dim lang As English
lang = New English()
End If

Label1.Text = lang.Welcome

What I want is that I can use the same label.text = lang.welcome for every class, that I don't have to type this in every if..then statement. Does anyone have some suggestions?

No wait, that won't work, since the Dim statement is in the If tag.

Try this:

Dim id As String = Request.QueryString("lang")

If id = "1" Then

 Dim lang As New Dutch()
 lblHeader.Text = lang.lblHeaderText

ElseIf id = "2" Then

 Dim lang As New English()
 lblHeader.Text = lang.lblHeaderText

End If

I'd be choosing your languages at a different level than in your page.

At the very least, something like this:

dim lang as new language("English")

lblHeader.Text = lang.lblHeaderText

In your Language class, you store you're properties depending on the language chosen in your constructor.

Your UI really shouldn't be doing this kind of comparison IMO.

Cheers,
Andrew

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