February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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4.4. Globalization
Globalization is becoming increasingly important in application development. The .NET 4.0 Framework now supports a minimum of 354 cultures (compared with 203 in previous releases with new support for Eskimos/Inuits—and a whole lot more).
A huge amount of localization information is compiled into the .NET Framework. The main problem is that the .NET Framework doesn't get updated that often, and native code doesn't use the same localization info.
This changes in .NET 4.0 for Windows 7 users because globalization information is read directly from the operating system rather than the framework. This is a good move because it presents a consistent approach across managed/unmanaged applications. For users not lucky enough to be ...