Apply localization through resource files to DisplayAttribute

Question

I've started a default MVC4 project in Visual Studio,

Somewhere in my model is this piece of code

 public class LoginModel
 {
    [Required]
    [Display(Name ="Name")]
    public string UserName { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [DataType(DataType.Password)]
    [Display(Name = "Password")]
    public string Password { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Remember me?")]
    public bool RememberMe { get; set; }
  }

I want to change it to something like this because i want to try localization (which works within another class, but not here) (strings=resx file for localization)

public class LoginModel
 {
    [Required]
    [Display(Name =strings.UserName)]
    public string UserName { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [DataType(DataType.Password)]
    [Display(Name = strings.Password)]
    public string Password { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = strings.RememberMe)]
    public bool RememberMe { get; set; }
  }

The error is it must be a constant expression, but when I make it like that, then I get something like 'property index lacks accessor'

What am I missing here?? Why cant I just assign a string value to the darn thing? In Java this is all so much easier. Hope you can help me out.

possible duplicate of [Localization of DisplayNameAttribute](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/356464/localization-of-displaynameattribute) — Raphaël Althaus, Jun 05 '12 at 08:10
thanks!! that post solved my problems, i had searched, but i guess i didnt search right. I had to use [Display(ResourceType = typeof(strings), Name = "Gebruikersnaam")] and i made the strings.resx attributes all public — Bart Hofma, Jun 05 '12 at 08:33

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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You should use Resources. In attributes you can set only immutable values.

Try this.

[Display(Name = "Remember me?", ResourceType = typeof(YourResourcesType))]
public bool RememberMe { get; set; }

And look this ASP.NET MVC 3 localization with DisplayAttribute and custom resource provider

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered Jun 05 '12 at 10:16

Alex Shkor

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i already had the solution (see comment under question), but you are right, this is how to solve this problem. – Bart Hofma Jun 05 '12 at 11:04

score -8 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '12 at 08:49

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I think you must use sessions and viewState,

To use sessions Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178581.aspx

And to use viewstate Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972976.aspx

answered Jun 05 '12 at 08:49

Ahmed Hassan

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Apply localization through resource files to DisplayAttribute

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