CONSTANTS problem in Internationalization

Pinnanagesh, try to use readonly variables instead. Readonly variables can be assigned to once and then become constant.

Thanks Jason for your suggestion but Readonly won't work in our case.

Again we have to use those constants in Case statement and Case is not accepting ReadOnly variables.

Here is another possibility. You can store the name of the values as strings. When you retrieve them from the Resource file, you can assign them to read-only variables. The Enum class has some methods to make sure you can cast a string value to the enum value safely.

Then you can use the test variable in a case statement.

private enum SomeEnum
{
	One,
	Two,
	Three
}
 
private void SomeMethod()
{
	Const1 = "One";
	Const2 = "Two";
	Const3 = "Three";
 
	SomeEnum testValue = SomeEnum.One;
 
	if (Enum.IsDefined(typeof(SomeEnum), testValue))
	{
		switch (testValue)
		{
			case SomeEnum.One:
				break;
			case SomeEnum.Two:
				break;
			case SomeEnum.Three:
				break;
		}
	}
	else
	{
		throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("testValue is not a member of SomeEnum");
	}
}

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oops, add these declarations before SomeEnum declaration

private readonly string Const1;
private readonly string Const2;
private readonly string Const3;

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I am not sure whether you understood my problem or not but I am not 100% clear with above solution.

My requirement is, I should get some thing thing from Resource file and associate to CONST and use that COSTANTS in case statement.

In above example, I didn't understood where you used constants...tweak my below example and give me the final solutions.


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using I18N.Properties;

namespace I18N
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private readonly string Const1 = Resources.Value1;
        private readonly string Const2 = Resources.Value2;
        private readonly string Const3 = Resources.Value3;

        private enum SomeEnum
        {
            One,
            Two,
            Three
        }
       
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            SomeMethod();
        }

        private void SomeMethod()
        {

            SomeEnum testValue = SomeEnum.Two;

            if (Enum.IsDefined(typeof(SomeEnum), testValue))
            {
                switch (testValue)
                {
                    case SomeEnum.One:
                        txt1.Text = "one";
                        break;
                    case SomeEnum.Two:
                        txt1.Text = "Two";
                        break;
                    case SomeEnum.Three:
                        txt1.Text = "Three";
                        break;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("testValue is not a member of SomeEnum");
            }
        }
    }
}