With the Q1 2009 SP2 release of RadControls for Silverlight we introduced an enhancement of the LocalizationManager class. Two new properties were added to enrich the localization support in the suite - DefaultCulture and DefaultResourceManager. With the new properties you no longer have to always create an instance of the LocalizationManager. Here is a brief description of the two properties:

• DefaultCulture
  A static property of type System.Globalization.CultureInfo.
  Use this one to change localized values without changing the UI culture of the current thread.
• DefaultResourceManager
  A static property of type System.Resources.ResourceManager.
  Use this one to change localized values using a new resource manager, i.e. a new resource file.

Example:

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As we are continuously working on the localization of all our controls, we'd like to share how the localization is actually progressing at our side.

With the RadControls for Silverlight Q1 2009 SP1 we introduced the LocalizationManager. Actually we have used it to localize the RadUpload control for Silverlight. Now we have four more controls localized right from the box: RadTreeView, RadMediaPlayer, RadColorSelector and RadColorPicker. In the attached example you can see them localized. Another control to be localized soon is the RadGridView control. The LocalizationManager allows you to easily localize any of our controls. In addition, we followed the practice to share the same code across Silverlight...