May 2010
Beginner to intermediate
551 pages
18h 34m
English
Content preview from Stephens' C# Programming with Visual Studio® 2010 24-Hour Trainer
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Localizing Programs
Many programmers write applications that are used only in their countries. It’s easy enough to
find plenty of customers for a small application without looking for customers long-distance.
However, the world has grown smaller in the past few decades, and it’s not too hard to provide
programs for people all over the world. Customers can download your software over the web
and pay for it using online payment systems in a matter of minutes. Web applications that run
in a browser are even more likely to be used by people all over the world.
With such a potentially enormous market, it makes sense in some cases to make programs
accessible to people in different countries, particularly since C# and Visual Studio make it
relatively easy.
In this lesson, you learn how to make a program accessible to customers in other countries
with different cultures. You learn how to make multiple interfaces for a program so users can
work in their own languages. You also learn how to work with values such as currency and
dates that have different formats in different locales.
Localization is a huge topic so there isn’t room to cover everything there is to
know about it here. In particular, you should always get a native of a particular
locale to help in localizing your application whenever possible. Unless you are
extremely well-versed in a locale’s language, customs, and idioms, it’s ...
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