How to get the field value of current item language in Sitecore

Question

I have created a custom Sitecore field from Sitecore.Shell.Applications.ContentEditor.NameLookupValue. But even after changing the language of the item where the custom field is added, context language, as well as the item language, is always coming as en.

So I am not able to get the value of the item field in other languages. Sitecore.Context.ContentDatabase.GetItem(this.ItemID) is always giving values of en language I have tried with httpcontext.current.request["sclanguage"]. But it is always giving the previous language.

Answer 1

You can use a LanguageSwitcher to change the language:

e.g.

using (new LanguageSwitcher("OTHER LANGUAGE CODE"))
{
    var item = Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem(this.ItemID);
    var field = item.Fields["FieldName"];
}

Getting the field value without a language switcher will always use the current context language. If the context language is en - it will get the en language version.

Make sure that in your data template you have not ticked Unversioned or Shared

Answer 2

Try this

var lang = Sitecore.Globalization.Language.Parse("fr");
var item = Sitecore.Context.ContentDatabase.GetItem(this.ItemID, lang );