Introduction
Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in SharePoint 2010.
Question: What is set locale?
In simple terms "It enables to set local with regional setting for SharePoint site based on the client's request".
Step 1: Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and navigate to a specific site.
Step 2: Open up Visual Studio 2012 and try to create a "SharePoint Visual Web Part" project, as in:
Step 3: Select "Deploy as a farm solution" as in the following and click the "Finish" button.
Step 4: The complete code of visualwebpart1usercontrol.ascx looks like this:
<%@ Assembly Name="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$" %>
<%@ Assembly Name="Microsoft.Web.CommandUI, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls"
Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="Utilities" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="asp" Namespace="System.Web.UI" Assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages"
Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="VisualWebPart1.ascx.cs"
Inherits="SiteLocaleSettingApp.VisualWebPart1.VisualWebPart1" %>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" text="Set Locale in SharePoint 2010 using VS 2012"
font-bold="true" font-size="Large" font-names="Verdana" forecolor="Maroon"></asp:label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label2" runat="server" text="Please Select Locale" font-size="Large"
font-names="Verdana" font-italic="true"></asp:label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:dropdownlist id="DropDownList1" runat="server"><asp:ListItem>Hindi</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>English</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>Telugu</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItem>Tamil</asp:ListItem></asp:dropdownlist>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:button id="Button2" runat="server" text="Set Locale" font-names="Verdana" width="199px"
backcolor="Orange" font-bold="True" onclick="Button2_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<asp:label id="Label5" runat="server" font-bold="true" font-names="Verdana" forecolor="Maroon"></asp:label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Step 5: The complete code of visualwebpart1usercontrol.ascx.cs looks like this:
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;namespace SiteLocaleSettingApp.VisualWebPart1
{
[ToolboxItemAttribute(false)]
public partial class VisualWebPart1 : WebPart
{
// Uncomment the following SecurityPermission attribute only when doing Performance Profiling using
// the Instrumentation method, and then remove the SecurityPermission attribute when the code is ready
// for production. Because the SecurityPermission attribute bypasses the security check for callers of
// your constructor, it's not recommended for production purposes.
// [System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission(System.Security.Permissions.SecurityAction.Assert, UnmanagedCode = true)]
public VisualWebPart1()
{
}
protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnInit(e);
InitializeControl();
}
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SPSite site = new SPSite("http://win-5c3g1lanj3k:29782/");
SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();
if (DropDownList1.SelectedValue == "English")
{
web.Locale = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-GB");web.Update();
}
else if (DropDownList1.SelectedValue == "Hindi")
{
web.Locale = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("hi-IN");
web.Update();
}
else if (DropDownList1.SelectedValue == "Telugu")
{
web.Locale = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("te-IN");
web.Update();
}
else if (DropDownList1.SelectedValue == "Tamil")
{
web.Locale = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("ta-IN");
web.Update();
}
Label5.Text = DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Text + " - Locale is Enabled";
Label5.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
}
}
}
Step 6: Deploy the solution file and add the new webpart to a SharePoint site.
Step 7: The output of the application looks like this:
Step 8: The locale setting output application looks like this:
Step 9: The locale setting enabled output application looks like this:
Step 10: The locale setting view output application looks like this:
I hope this article is useful for you.
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