OwnCloud is an interesting solution for setting up a file sharing cloud for a group of people. However,one issue I’ve found with its Windows desktop client’s current version (which looks clean of any viruses since I always check first) is that if your Windows 10 is configured with a preferred language that the desktop client’s […]

Just came across this validation error display in an MVC app I’ve recently started maintaining. The required input field validation seemed to not be localized, resulting in a mixed English and Greek (from the field’s Display name) message: Looking at the MVC model I noticed they were using [Required] attributes for the userName and password ...

I’ve just updated an older answer of mine at: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/716ef041-0a59-4c1d-9519-e14db4de7e75/localizability-vs-localizable-attributes-in-control-dev?forum=wpf In case you’re wondering too what’s the difference between Localizable and Localizability attributes in .NET, maybe this helps a bit: ...

At LvS (the opensource application of LeViS), I’ve been using this (VB.net) code to set the UI language (for example to Greek): Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("el") Others seem to have been using (C# – that’s why there is a trailing semicolon): Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ...