Localize ToggleSwitch in Silverlight Toolkit

Read tons of blogs and questions and answers, but cannot get Localize ToggleSwitch in SilverLight Toolkit in my Windows Phone Application. So i decided to get my own way. My proposal based on DataTemplate for ToggleSwitch and ValueConverter. So let's go.

First add Localized Resource for our new On and Off string values:

Next step create ValueConverter:

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1. public class BoolToSwitchConverter : IValueConverter  
2. {  
3.     private string FalseValue = Resources.Off;  
4.     private string TrueValue  = Resources.On;  
5.   
6.     public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)  
7.     {  
8.         if (value == null)  
9.             return FalseValue;  
10.         else  
11.             return ("On".Equals(value)) ? TrueValue : FalseValue;  
12.     }  
13.   
14.     public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)  
15.     {  
16.         return value != null ? value.Equals(TrueValue) : false;  
17.     }  
18. }  

public class BoolToSwitchConverter : IValueConverter { private string FalseValue = Resources.Off; private string TrueValue = Resources.On; public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) { if (value == null) return FalseValue; else return ("On".Equals(value)) ? TrueValue : FalseValue; } public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) { return value != null ? value.Equals(TrueValue) : false; } }

Make our converter visible from XAML, adding glue code to Application Resources in App.xaml Add link to app namespace if you not do this before xmlns:local="clr-namespace:AppNamspace" And add resource code

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1. <Application.Resources>  
2.     <local:BoolToSwitchConverter x:Key="Switch" />  
3. </Application.Resources>  

<Application.Resources> <local:BoolToSwitchConverter x:Key="Switch" /> </Application.Resources>

And finally override DataTemplate on our ToggleSwitch:

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1. <toolkit:ToggleSwitch x:Name="MySwitch" Header="Localized Switch">  
2.     <toolkit:ToggleSwitch.ContentTemplate>  
3.         <DataTemplate>  
4.             <ContentControl HorizontalAlignment="Left"   
5.                 Content="{Binding Converter={StaticResource Switch}}"/>  
6.         </DataTemplate>  
7.     </toolkit:ToggleSwitch.ContentTemplate>  
8. </toolkit:ToggleSwitch>  

<toolkit:ToggleSwitch x:Name="MySwitch" Header="Localized Switch"> <toolkit:ToggleSwitch.ContentTemplate> <DataTemplate> <ContentControl HorizontalAlignment="Left" Content="{Binding Converter={StaticResource Switch}}"/> </DataTemplate> </toolkit:ToggleSwitch.ContentTemplate> </toolkit:ToggleSwitch>

Result: