Localization Service with Telerik MVC Controls - localization

We are using the Telerik MVC controls (not Kendo at the moment) which are localized to ResX files. We have a requirement to use a localization service provided by our clients instead.
How can we tell Telerik to use something other than a ResX file for localization?

You could try to create a custom resource provider, which is basically covered here.

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How to retrieve all static texts from resource in a mvc website?

I want to build a multi language website. I found some resource about that but I don't know how I can retrieve texts from resource file and put it on a HTML tag.
for example I have a h1 tag and I want to get it's text from resource file and change this text according to selected language.
I mean I don't know about how to use localization in views.
thanks for help
As i do not have reputation to sent a comment yet. Here is a link on how this is done from Microsoft for ASP.NET Core MVC.
Globalization and localization
For ASP.NET MVC 5 you can check a helpful tutorial from CodeProject
You can read this article about ASP.NET Core MVC Localization by URL.
And also there is GitHub repo of implementation of that article. Project is built on ASP.NET Core 2.0.

Side-by-Side Asp.Net and MVC Razor

We have an existing ASP.Net Web Application. I would like to create an ASP.Net MVC Razor Application where the two applications will work together. A single Master Page would contain menu items that can call .aspx pages as well as Razor .cshtml pages.
I have seen an example using MvcContrib Portable areas utilizing Routing. This particular example has .aspx pages in both (the MVC was not Razor).
Is there an example out there that will show the two running side-by-side and the MVC is Razor? It would be best if I could download a visual Studio Solution so that I can run this.
I am not sure if the MvcContrib way is the latest and best way to achieve this.
I do not want to go Hybrid!
You don't need any other external librarry. You can always convert the existing ASP.NET web forms Project to be a Hybrid one which uses webforms and MVC. You need to add the required MVC assembly references and make some changes to the web.config and you are all set. Scott has a simple and awesome blog post about this where he explains how to do the conversion.
I scribbled a note about how to enable the MVC specific Context menu( Add Controller / Add View) in the hybrid project after conversion here

ASP.NET MVC's Content/Themes/base Directory

What's the purpose of the Content/Themes/base directory in an ASP.NET MVC application? I see that it has some images (which as far as I can tell, are not used); and a bunch of jQuery CSS files.
What are these files for? Are they used by default in a new ASP.NET MVC application?
jQuery UI is included with new ASP.NET MVC projects; these files are used by all the different widgets. If you're not going to use jQuery UI, or if you want a custom download package (available from their website), you can delete all of these files (and the references to them in the layout/master page file).

ASP.NET MVC3 - Distributing EditorTemplate in library project?

Is it possible to distribute an EditorTemplate control ASCX along with a type in a library project and have it be used by MVC3 when the type is rendered with the EditorFor() method?
Where I work we have a lot of DateTime, Gender and a few more custom fields which have a specific but concsistent way of (HTML) input and a corresponding backing ViewModel type for them (i.e. DateTimeViewModel with separate month, day, year field etc.) and they are in a shared library project.
However we still have to copy the EditorTemplates for these types to each project which is not very DRY.
So is there a way to bundle such EditorTemplate along with the library project and make sure that it's used when the corresponding ViewModel is used without having to copy all EditorTemplate to every projects?
You need a custom VirtualPathProvider to achieve this but nothing out of the box. Here's a blog post you may take a look at.
Disclaimer: Custom VirtualPathProviders don't work with precompiled web applications. So if you intend to precompile your web application before shipping don't use virtual path providers.
Because of this limitation personally I use custom NuGet packages that allow the developers to pull all the necessary templates to their corresponding locations.
You could create your own VS Template, Export it and distribute it to all of your developers I think.
Write Templates for VS2010
You can register your own VirutalPathProvider implementation:
HostingEnvironment.RegisterVirtualPathProvider(new YourViewProvider());
Then you will be able to get your files from basically anywhere (for example from embedded resource).
Hope this helps.
I think this is not currently possible. ASP.NET MVC editor templates should be defined in a partial view file. There is no way to define them in code only.

ASP.NET MVC Server File Browsers

On my current project we would like to expose some server directories to the client so they can control their own assets/static HTML/CSS etc. The existing web forms project is being replaced by MVC and I am struggling to find an out of the box server file browser with which to expose this functionality.
Here is an example for WebForms: Telerik FileExplorer demo
Can anyone recommend a decent alternative which is designed for the MVC framework? We don't mind paying license fees, however something extensible and preferably open source would be better :)
Look for some jQuery,Ajax based file managers
some links to start with
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/SFBrowser
http://riderdesign.com/articles/Build-a-file-tree-explorer-with-jQuery-and-ASP.NET.aspx
jQuery File Tree works well for me.
It is read-only and you can set root directory and other options.
It has an ASPX connector included in package.
[Full Disclosure: I work for Telerik.]
Telerik has not yet recreated the RadFileExplorer reusable UI experience for MVC, but we do have a powerful Treeview in our open source Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. Using the Treeview, you can easily create a server file explorer using techniques similar to those in the RiderDesign article highlighted by Ajay. One advantage of using the Telerik Extensions vs. something like a JavaScript UI plug-in is that you get server and client-side rendering, improving your application's accessibility and behavior in non-JS clients.
You can learn more about using the Treeview in these online examples:
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/TreeView
Hope that helps.

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