Tutorial: Configuring Multilingual Client Support
Introduction
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio includes support for multilingual Web and Windows clients, through dynamic localization.
Dynamic localization allows users to view ToolTips and other content of the CrystalReportViewer control in their preferred language.
In this tutorial, you study the following:
- How to configure the CrystalReportViewer control language resources on the Windows client or Web server.
- How to configure client access to localization in various ways.
- How to configure global or local settings.
Sample Code
This tutorial comes with Visual Basic and C# sample code that shows the completed version of the project. Follow the instructions in this tutorial to create a new project or open the sample code project to work from a completed version.
The sample code is stored in folders that are categorized by language and project type. The folder names for each sample code version are as follows:
- C# Web Site: CS_Web_Multilingual
- C# Windows project: CS_Win_Multilingual
- Visual Basic Web Site: VB_Web_Multilingual
- Visual Basic Windows project: VB_Win_Multilingual
To locate the folders that contain these samples, see Tutorials' Sample Code Directory.