best way to store/use multiple languages
<p>If I would want to create a c# application that support multiple languages, how should I store them?</p>

<p>I'd probably use constants in the application as value holders.</p>

<p>Such as:
Console.Write(FILE_NOT_FOUND);</p>

<p>When compiled, it would change into the string determined by the language.
I'll probably stick to 3 languages (Danish, English, Deutsch), not that I think it matters though.</p>

<p>It seems to be a waste to have a class file for each language, which all is processed when the application is compiled. It would also mean that you'd have to re-compile and re-distribute the whole program every time you want to change a string.
As far as I know, hardcoded strings is a bad thing.</p>

<p>Maybe a text file?
English.txt
Line1: FILE_NOT_FOUND=File Not Found. Try Again
Line2
Line3
etc.</p>

<p>Danish.txt
Line1: FILE_NOT_FOUND=Filen blev ikke fundet. Prøv igen
Line2
Line3
etc.</p>

<p>and so on.
If the user selects English, it reads the text file and set the different constant values.</p>

<p>The last one I can think of is placing it in a SQL database.</p>

<p>Could you give me some input? :)</p>

<p>Also, I tried writing FILE _ NOT _ FOUND (without spaces, but the text editor wouldn't let me</p>
