WinForm - Localize DataGridView with automatical generated columns

[Mc_Topaz]

Hi! I have a DataGridView in a Windows Form application where I want to localize the columns in the DataGridView. I use the DataGridView 's DataSource property to populate the DataGridView from a list. Therefore the columns in the DataGridView are genereated automatically after the properies in the list. Here is the code to populate the DataGridView.

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();

    var p1 = new Person() { Name = "Foo", Age = 1337 };
    var p2 = new Person() { Name = "Bar", Age = 42 };
    var people = new List() { p1, p2 };
    dataGridView1.DataSource = people;
}

}

public class Person
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Age { get; set; }
}

The generated columns in the DataGridView are Name and Age, the same as the properties in the Person class. I have set the Form's Localizable property to True. With a Label in the Form, I have verified that I can change the Label's Text property to different values based on the CurrentCulture / CurrentUICulture I set. I switch between different cultures in the Program.cs file:

static class Program
{
/// /// The main entry point for the application.
///
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
var eng = "en";
var swe = "sv-SE";
var culture = eng;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(culture);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(culture);

    Application.EnableVisualStyles();
    Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
    Application.Run(new Form1());
}

}

My project have generated Form1.resx and Form1.sv.resx files to handle both English and Swedish. In these files I can find the label's text for the English and Swedish languages accordingly. I just don't know how to set the DataGridView's column to different languages. Since the columns are not manually created by me I don't have the appropriate values in the Form1.resx and Form1.sv.resx to set the columns based on the selected language. Is there any solution to this?

[BillWoodruff]

Because of the way DGV columns are created, you are going to have to iterate over them to localize them: [^]. Look at this excerpt from Hans Passant's code in the link:

foreach (DataGridViewColumn col in dgv.Columns) {
resources.ApplyResources(col, col.Name);
}

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