Chapter 13: Globalizing and Localizing Your Application


Overview

Chapter 1, "Understanding Application Architecture: An Overview," mentioned that the business world is becoming global. Boundaries are being blurred every day, especially in the business world. More businesses are based in multiple countries now than any time in the past, and those businesses are putting out their messages to people all over the world via the Internet. This means that many programs may need to have built-in support for multiple languages.

This chapter introduces some of the ideas and best practices you will need to know to globalize applications. In addition, you will globalize the Employee Edit forms for both your Windows application and your Web application and go over some of the techniques used in globalization.

Note

This chapter is not an in-depth chapter on globalization and localization. If you are interested in an excellent book on all of the different aspects of these techniques, refer to Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .NET by Nick Symmonds (Apress, 2002). This book goes into much greater detail and provides you with a wealth of information if you need it.

Globalization is the process of preparing an application to be localized. Localization is the process of taking an application and adding in the resources used to display the interface in a user's native language. This chapter examines both aspects.

Note

I am one of those language-inept people. To quote Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element, "I speak two languages, English and Bad English." Because of this slight limitation on my part, the translations may not be entirely accurate, but I have tried my best to give them justice.




Building Client/Server Applications with VB. NET(c) An Example-Driven Approach
Building Client/Server Applications Under VB .NET: An Example-Driven Approach
ISBN: 1590590708
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 148
Authors: Jeff Levinson

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