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?

Yes, something like this should work

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

If id = "1" Then

 Dim lang As New Dutch()

ElseIf id = "2" Then

 Dim lang As New English()

End If

lblHeader.Text = lang.lblHeaderText.ToString

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

 VS.NET compiles it all into one right?

yes and no
Everything will be compiled to 1 dll. In my class I have the following member variables:
m_strWelcome = "Welcome"
m_strHello = "Hello"

And also exactly the same variables but then with another language.

Is it possible to separate this and put the variables in another dll for each language?

To MoringZ

It isn't compiled into one? That's quite sad, since that was the entire idea right? Multiple languages in one project. Can't you start a 'blank' project (not a solution) and then make both C# and Vb.Net?

i ran into the same problem before, http://www.crystaltech.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6212&FORUM_ID=16&CAT_ID=2&Topic_Title=what+do+i+need+to+do+to+expose+a+class%3F&Forum_Title=%2ENET+Forum - and here was the solution (same as i said above)

remember that when you start a new project, you are choosing "C#" or "VB.NET" as the base, and then going from there, so not having pages of both flavors in the same project makes perfect sense

Hmpf, stupid studio. You're right..

It just can't be done, that's right. You'll have to create seperate projects, within the same solution... Weird studio.

not sure where you think its "stupid" or "weird".. its doing exactly what you tell it to do

Yeah m8, i know, it's just that they've been advertising and telling everyone that you can have TONS of languages within a application, and now it turns out that it needs to have seperate projects.

Quite logic actually, but still, this might be ONE of the improvements to the next VS.NET

BTW: is that your windows? What a messed up colors

but see, you dont understand the difference between an "application" and a "project"

there can (and typically may be) many "projects" in an application, that's where it al ties in....

as for my colors, i saved the image in a lower resolution so people didnt have to download a several hundred kb image off my server, as long as you got the point of the screenshot is all that matters