Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Localizing a WPF Application

Say that you want to create a localized version for the Italian culture of a WPF application based on English as the primary culture. Create a new WPF project with Visual Basic and name it as WpfLocalization, and add the code shown in Listing 33.1 on the XAML side. The goal is to provide a WPF counterpart of the Windows Forms example shown in the previous section.

LISTING 33.1 Preparing the User Interface Before Localization

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<Window x:Class="MainWindow"    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"    Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">   <StackPanel>        <Button Name="Button1" Width="100" Margin="5" ...