c# - MVC Globalization for DisplayName and DisplayFor -

i developing multilingual (english, arabic) application using mvc. application should display both labels , data based on resources files.

database designed store translated fields in same tables example

  gender[id, name,arabicname]   person[id,firstname,fathername,familyname,arabicfirstname,            arabicfathername,arabicfamilyname,genderid] 

i managed display dropdownlist based on resources switching between name , arabicname fields using:

        viewbag.gender= new selectlist(mentities.genders.tolist(), "id",                                        resources.global.name);     // name value in global.resx name , in global.ar.resx arabicname 

and displaying labelfor using:

[display(name="firstname", resourcetype =typeof(resources.global))] public string firstname{get;set;} 

my question, possible switch between firstname value , arabicfirstname using displayfor , how achieve in mvc?

for example display: firstname = antony english , arabicfirstname = انطوان arabic

i made following workaround make things work

1. to distinguish between labels , data values in resource file used convension:

firstname stands labels , firstnameresource stands data

example resource file like:

   firstname => value = first name (for english), الاسم الاول (for arabic)    firstnameresource = > value = firstname ( english) , arabicfirstname (for arabic) 

2. i coded following htmlhelper

    public static mvchtmlstring displayresourcefor<tmodel, tvalue>(this htmlhelper<tmodel> helper,      expression<func<tmodel, tvalue>> expression) {     var rm = new resourcemanager("resources.global",          system.reflection.assembly.load("app_globalresources"));     var resource = rm.getstring(string.format("{0}resource",          expressionhelper.getexpressiontext(expression)));     var value = helper.viewcontext.viewdata.getviewdatainfo(resource).value.tostring();     return mvchtmlstring.create(value); } 

3. you can use extension following:

   @html.displayresourcefor(m=>m.firstname)

this workaround helped me solve problem, maybe there straight forward solution.