Translating HeaderText for gridview columns

Hello:
I'm new to .net development, coming from a traditional javascript/html .asp framework.  I'm very frustrated, and I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple.

What I want to do is dynamically assign the HeaderText property of my grid's columns, so that the text can be translated into different languages.

Here is a code snip that does NOT work, but will demonstrate what I'm after:

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyNames="ID"
                        DataSourceID="ObjectDataSource1" CssClass="new" Width="758px">
    <Columns>
        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Select">
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:CheckBox ID="RowCheckBox" runat="server"></asp:CheckBox>
            </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:TemplateField>
              <asp:BoundField DataField="OutputType" HeaderText="Common1.VincPPLang(&quot;TypeColHT&quot;,Session(&quot;sv_LanguageCode&quot;)) " SortExpression="ProfileNarrative" />

SNIP ENDS

I have a function (VincPPLang()) that assigns that should return a string for the header text.

What I find very frustrating is that I seem to be able to get the results I want using the pageload sub, but only if I address the columns in the entirely arbitrary manner of Me.GridView1.Columns(0).HeaderText - having to reference the columns by index number renders the code extremely difficult to maintain and makes re-using it a remote possibility at best.

So, how can I assign the HeaderText value from a database using a function that is called for each column of a grid?

TIA,

Dan
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