Chapter 8. Globalization

Terms you'll need to understand:

  • Globalization

  • Localizability

  • Localization

  • Culture

  • Resource files

  • CultureInfo class

  • CurrentUICulture property

  • CurrentCulture property

  • Invariant Culture

  • Character encodings

  • Mirroring

  • String indexing

Techniques you'll need to master:

  • Understand the purpose of cultures within the .NET Framework.

  • Understand how to obtain a listing of available cultures from an application.

  • Understand how to perform application localization at runtime.

Modern global network applications might require the ability to support different languages and information-presentation formats based on the local settings appropriate to the current user. Microsoft's .NET Framework includes support for culture and globalization changes, ...

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