How to specify the name of a ContentType in code for multi-language site?

Question

according to the documentation I can do:

<ContentTypeID="0x01000188a30d01ae4607bbe5800bbbaf2550"
           Name="$Resources:LocalizeContentType,ContentTypeTitle" 
           ....

However I seem to be unable to do:

var contentType = new ContentType(parent, web.ContentTypes, "$Resources:LocalizeContentType,ContentTypeTitle"); 

The error being that a name of a contentType can not contain characters like "$" and so on...

How can I create a ContentType (in code) whose name is localized?

Answer 1

You should use SPUtility to retrieve content type name and use this name like this:

string str = "$Resources:key";
string locStr = SPUtility.GetLocalizedString(str, "resource_file", (uint)culture.LCID);
var contentType = new ContentType(parent, web.ContentTypes, locStr);