Right-to-Left Languages and Localization-Safe Layouts

Localization in Wisej.NETModule 5The lesson guide, the walkthrough video, the knowledge check and the hands-on lab this sample was built from are on learnwisej.com — free, with an AI tutor in every lesson.

Open the course

The GlobalDesk dashboard exactly as the walkthrough shows it: the blue application bar, the navigation column (Dashboard / Customers / Contacts / Settings), the Welcome back, Dana greeting, the Customer code field, the contacts grid with Contact / Company / City, the Save changes / Cancel pair, and the status strip reporting the culture and the reading direction.

Switch the picker to العربية and the whole arrangement mirrors — except the customer code, which stays left to right because it is an identifier.

The source of this sample

iceteagroup/LearnWisej-SamplesLocalization in Wisej.NET Course/Module 5

Browse this folder on GitHub

Or clone it: git clone https://github.com/iceteagroup/LearnWisej-Samples.git — then open GlobalDesk.slnx in Visual Studio and press F5.

Run it

cd "Localization in Wisej.NET Course/Module 5/GlobalDesk"
dotnet run -f net10.0 --urls http://localhost:6105

Open http://localhost:6105, or go straight to a culture with http://localhost:6105/?lang=ar-SA / ?lang=qps-ploc in a new tab.

What to try

Action	Expected result
Pick العربية (السعودية)	Navigation column moves to the right, the grid's columns reverse, the buttons swap order, every caption is Arabic. The status strip reads الاتجاه: من اليمين إلى اليسار.
Look at the customer code	GD-40117-AR, still left to right, still left-aligned. txtCustomerCode.RightToLeft = No.
Look at the contacts grid under Arabic	Arabic contact names beside Latin company names. Record what it does; see the lab note.
Pick Pseudo (qps-ploc)	Every caption bracketed and about 40% longer. Anything not bracketed never went through a resource.
Pick Deutsch	Kontaktverzeichnis fits the navigation column. A fixed 146 px column is where that word gets cut.
Drag the window narrow	The button row wraps instead of pushing a button off the edge.

Notes

• RightToLeftLayout on the container mirrors the children. Set the container, leave the children alone. A screen where every control carries its own RightToLeft is a screen where one of them will be missed.
• Nothing in the C# tests for Arabic. rightToLeft: "auto" derives the direction from the session's culture, and Application.RightToLeft reports it.
• The window glyphs are the one container pinned out of the mirroring: they are chrome, not content, and they stay on the right in every language.
• The German file for the customer screen has no Size or Location entries any more. The row and the button bar flow and the buttons are AutoSize with a MinimumSize, so a longer caption costs nothing. Compare it with Module 4's.
• Four resource files per language now, not one: the shared Strings.<lang>.resx and the designer's CustomerEditor.<lang>.resx. Counting them is the cheapest way to spot a language that was half done.