Have posted about this before and don't seem to be getting anywhere.  These forums are like a ghost town anymore <tumbleweed rolls by>

Trying to Localize a gridview's headers.  Thinking it was my install that was messed up (because search is not working either), I Installed a new instance of 4.3.5 from the source download and created new Database.

I have narrowed it down to the fact that Me.LocalResourceFile returns no file instance when the user is not logged in.  So then it goes to the DNN resourcefile looking for the entries.  I am perfectly willing to accept that I may not understand the way this works, but it sure doesn't seem like it's working right to me.

If Me.UserId = -1 Then
   c.HeaderText = Localization.GetString("lbl" & c.HeaderText & ".Text", Me.LocalResourceFile & "\viewEmployees.ascx.resx")
Else
   c.HeaderText = Localization.GetString("lbl" & c.HeaderText & ".Text", Me.LocalResourceFile)
End If

Thanks

Upon further investigation it actually appears that the issue is whethor or not the current user has edit permissions for the module.  This code seems to working, regardless of who is logged in (admin or otherwise).

If IsEditable() = False Then

c.HeaderText = Localization.GetString("lbl" & c.HeaderText & ".Text", Me.LocalResourceFile & "\viewEmployees.ascx.resx")

Else

c.HeaderText = Localization.GetString("lbl" & c.HeaderText & ".Text", Me.LocalResourceFile)

End If

That's quite odd as I've seen no such problem with localization in 4.3.7 or 4.4.0. Simply passing Me.LocalResourceFile to Localization.GetString appears to work regardless of whether the user is logged in or not or if he/she has edit privileges on the module control (assuming the ControlType in the ModuleDefinitions is "View", that is).

You might also be interested in this GridView localization method that I contributed a while back:

www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/ForumsDotNetNuke/tabid/795/forumid/80/threadid/94341/scope/posts/Default.aspx

For the ResourceFile parameter, I simply pass in Me.LocalResourceFile.