Summary

In this chapter, we've covered the basic steps for creating global applications with the .NET Framework Class Library. This seemingly daunting task now should seem well within your reach.

The following lists the key points presented in this chapter:

  • It is often far easier and cheaper to bake globalization into your application at the time of inception rather than retrofitting your application at a later date.

  • When designing for the global scale, it is important to partition your application's data into what is core and what is translated.

  • The System.Globalization namespace defines key classes for writing global-ready applications.

  • To define a culture, you use the language-country/region syntax (en-US for example).

  • The CultureInfo class represents ...

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