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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition
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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition

by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
25h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Global Applications

If you plan to distribute your applications worldwide, you may need to prepare different versions of the user interface for different regions. At a minimum, this would involve translating text into the appropriate language. It may also involve other UI changes. You might need to adapt certain visuals to local cultural conventions. Or you might find that the original layout doesn't quite work after translation, because the words are of different lengths. (Although WPF's layout system makes it easy to build flexible layouts that can help to avoid that last problem.)

An extreme solution would be to build different versions of your software for different markets. However, a more common approach is to build a single version that can adapt to different locales, usually by selecting suitable resource files at runtime. The ResourceManager infrastructure that WPF uses makes this fairly straightforward.

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Microsoft draws a distinction between localization and globalization. Localization is the process of enabling an application to be used in a particular locale, by creating culture-specific resources such as translated text. Globalization is the process of ensuring that an application can be localized without needing to be recompiled. Using ResourceManager helps to globalize your application, because its runtime resource selection enables a single build of the application to be localized by supplying suitable resources. For more information on recommended globalization ...

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