Stephens' C# Programming with Visual Studio® 2010 24-Hour Trainer

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LESSON 34 LocaLizing Programs

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In this Try It, you write the program shown in Figures 34-5 and 34-6, which let you select fore-

ground and background colors in American English and Mexican Spanish.

FIGURE 345

FIGURE 346

You can download the code and resources for this Try It from the book’s web

page at

www.wrox.com or www.CSharpHelper.com/24hour.html. You can find

them in the Lesson34 folder of the download.

Lesson Requirements

Build the default interface.

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Add code to handle the

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RadioButtons’ Click events.

Localize the application for Mexican Spanish.

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Add code to let you test the form for either locale.

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Hints

There’s no need to build a separate event handler for each

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RadioButton. Use one event handler

for all of the foreground buttons and one for all of the background buttons.

These event handlers must then figure out which button was clicked, but they cannot use the

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buttons’ text because that will change depending on which locale is selected. They could use

the buttons’ names because they don’t change, but it’s even easier to store the corresponding

colors’ names in their

Tag properties and then use the Color class’s FromName method to get

the appropriate

Color.

Step-by-Step

Build the default interface.

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1. Build a form that looks like the one shown in Figure 34-5.

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2. Store the color names (red, green, blue, and ...