Localized tables and Entity Framework

Question

I have a scenario where I need to localized values of objects in my database.

Let\'s say you have an application that can create animals, if the user is english the valu

Answer 1

What I did in a similar situation is created a view say LocalizedAnimals which is a flat representation of that 2 table structure and created an EF model for that view. So when I need to display say French animal data I would filter those LocalizedAnimals and have nice simple object list as a result.

Something like this:

var localizedAnimals = myContext.LocalizedAnimals.Where(
                           p => p.CultureName == Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name
                       );

Answer 2

I'm not sure you'd want to do this in the database. I think it would be more sensible to use a configuration file or resource that defines Culture-specific names.

You might also check Microsoft's documentation on internationalization and localization.