How do I handle localization of annotations?

This is a great problem for MVVM Annotations API to solve

If your annotations are generated using our MVVM API, then the BaseAnnotationViewModel.Text or BaseAnnotationViewModel.Tooltip properties can be bound to keys and using a converter, can localise the string.

for example, given an annotation declared like this:

<Annotation Tooltip={Binding Path=TooltipKey, Converter={StaticResource LocalisationConverter}}/>

• TooltipKey is a key which contains what message to display + language
• Localisation converter is a custom converter you’ve created to lookup the key and turn it into a string for the user

e.g. if you have TooltipKey = “Warning_Eng” then the converter returns ‘Warning this is bad”
but if TooltipKey = “Warning_Fr” then the converter returns “attention, c’est mauvais!”

How to inject the converter into the binding if you’re using our MVVM API? That part’s going to require an example (which will take our team a while to create)

let me know if this is helpful so far

Best regards
Andrew

@Andrew
My AnnotationViewModel does inherit from BaseAnnotationViewModel, and the getter method for the tooltip text implements the localization. All I was missing was to invoke OnPropertyChanged on the annotations collection when the user switches locale.
Your solution based on a converter is probably more elegant though.