Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours

Hour 20. Internationalizing Your Application

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Understanding internationalization

• Understanding culture

• Globalization at work

• Localizing application resources

When published into the Windows Phone Marketplace, an application is immediately available to a worldwide market. This presents a great opportunity for your application to reach markets and users you might not have considered, but it also presents an interesting problem as well. If your application is written in English only, how will it be received in markets where English is not the primary language? To solve this problem, you should ensure your application has been internationalized by globalizing and localizing the application resources, such ...