Neither technique is any good. Use ASP.NET's extremely flexible globalization features and let the framework handle the complexities.
On Aug 15, 6:18 pm, "T.K." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > please advise what is the best practice to develop a site with > multiple languages English, French , German, etc.... > > If my site is the same and I just want to change the field names and > text on the page as per the chosen language which technique is better: > > is it to save the field names in an xml file and read it each time > someone chooses french, or is it > querying the fields from sql 2005 (but i guess it will slow down the > site load). > > or is there any better specific way of doing this, I'm searching for > the best optimised and fast loading way to do this. my site is in > ASP.Net and VB.net and SQL 2005 > > Regards > T.K.
