MCAD/MCSD.NET Training Guide (Exam 70-316): Developing and Implementing Windows®-Based Applications with Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET and Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET

Chapter 8. Globalization

OBJECTIVES

This chapter covers the following Microsoft-specified objectives for the “Creating User Services” section of Exam 70-316, “Developing and Implementing Windows-Based Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET”:

Implement globalization.

• Implement localizability for the UI.

• Convert existing encodings.

• Implement right-to-left and left-to-right mirroring.

• Prepare culture-specific formatting.

Validate user input.

• Validate non-Latin user input.

• The goal of this exam objective is to test your ability to produce what Microsoft calls “world-ready” applications. A world-ready application is one that can be translated for a new culture with a minimum of recoding (ideally, with no recoding at ...