Changes the value of a user control's Description Attribute depending on the language used.

Question

I created a user control with a description attribute for these properties.

When I test the user control, these descriptions appear correctly in the property grid.

The description attribute is in French.

I would like to be able to change it dynamically depending on a language choice, for example in English.

How can we change this?

Answer 1

The string to be displayed are changed by referring to CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name.

using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Globalization;

class SRDescriptionAttribute : DescriptionAttribute
{
    public string EnString { get; }
    public string JpString { get; }

    public SRDescriptionAttribute(string enString, string jpString) {
        EnString = enString;
        JpString = jpString;
    }

    public override string Description {
        get {
            switch (CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name) {
                case "en-US":
                    return EnString;
                case "ja-JP":
                    return JpString;
            }
            return EnString;
        }
    }
}

It is used like this.

class TestUserControl : UserControl
{
    [SRDescription("English", "日本語")]
    public int Prop1 { get; set; }
}

Answer 2

Many thanks to KOZ6.0 for his answer.

This solved my problem.