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.NET Internationalization: The Developers Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications

ISBN: 0321341384
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 213

Authors: Guy Smith-Ferrier

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• .NET Internationalization: The Developer s Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Microsoft .NET Development Series
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Chapter 1. A Roadmap for the Internationalization Process
• The Operating System
• The .NET Framework and Visual Studio
• Languages
• Resource Formats
• Languages and Cultural Formatting
• Windows Forms Applications
• ASP.NET Applications
• Globalization
• Localization
• Machine Translation
• Resource Administration
• Testing
• Translation
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 2. Unicode, Windows, and the .NET Framework
• Unicode
• Code Pages
• Unicode Windows
• Code Page Windows
• Virtual Machines
• Windows Multilingual User Interface Pack
• Language and Locale Support
• .NET Framework Languages and .NET Framework Language Packs
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 3. An Introduction to Internationalization
• Internationalization Terminology
• Cultures
• Localizable Strings
• Resource File Formats
• Resource Managers
• Localized Strings
• CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture
• The Resource Fallback Process
• Image and File Resources
• Strongly-Typed Resources in the .NET Framework 2.0
• Strongly-Typed Resources in the .NET Framework 1.1
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 4. Windows Forms Specifics
• Localizing Forms
• Setting the CurrentUICulture
• Changing the Culture During Execution
• Using Regional and Language Options to Change the Culture
• Dialogs
• Windows Resource Localization Editor (WinRes)
• ClickOnce
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 5. ASP.NET Specifics
• Localizability in .NET 1.1
• Static Text
• Calendar Control
• Setting and Recognizing the Culture
• Caching Output by Culture
• Localizability in Visual Studio 2005
• Automatic Culture Recognition for Individual Pages
• Manual Culture Recognition for Individual Pages
• Application-Wide Automatic Culture Recognition
• Explicit Expressions
• Global Resources
• Implicit Expressions vs. Explicit Expressions
• Programmatic Resource Access
• Localizing ASP.NET 2 Components
• Localizing the Website Administration Tool
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 6. Globalization
• The CultureInfo Class
• The RegionInfo Class
• Geographical Information
• String Comparisons
• Casing
• Sort Orders
• Calendars
• DateTimes, DateTimeFormatInfos, and Calendars
• Numbers, Currencies, and NumberFormatInfo
• International Domain Name Mapping
• Environment Considerations
• Extending the CultureInfo Class
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 7. Middle East and East Asian Cultures
• Supplemental Language Support
• Right-to-Left Languages and Mirroring
• Input Method Editors
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 8. Best Practices
• Font Selection
• Strings and String.Format
• Embedded Control Characters
• Exception Messages
• Hot Keys
• Windows Forms Best Practices
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 9. Machine Translation
• How Good Is It ?
• Translation Engine
• Pseudo Translation
• Static Lookup Translator
• Web Service Translators
• HTML Translators
• Office 2003 Research Services
• Translator Evaluator
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 10. Resource Administration
• Resource Administrator
• Add Resource String Visual Studio Add-In
• Reading and Writing Resources
• Resource Governors
• The Resource Editor Control
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 11. Custom Cultures
• Uses for Custom Cultures
• Using CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder
• InstallingRegistering Custom Cultures
• UninstallingUnregistering Custom Cultures
• Public Custom Cultures and Naming Conventions
• Supplemental Substitute Custom Cultures
• Custom Culture Locale IDs
• Custom Culture Parents and Children
• Support for Custom Cultures
• Supplemental Custom Cultures
• Culture Builder Application Sample (CultureSample)
• Combining Cultures
• Exporting Operating System-Specific Cultures
• Company-Specific Dialects
• Extending the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder Class
• Custom Cultures and .NET Framework Language Packs
• Custom Cultures in the .NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 12. Custom Resource Managers
• ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager
• ResourceManager Exposed
• Custom Resource Managers Examples
• DbResourceManager
• ResourcesResourceManager and ResXResourceManager
• Writeable Resource Managers
• TranslationResourceManager
• StandardPropertiesResourceManager
• ResourceManagerProvider
• Using Custom Resource Managers in Windows Forms
• Generating Strongly-Typed Resources for Sources Other Than resx Files
• Using Custom Resource Managers in ASP.NET 2.0
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 13. Testing Internationalization Using FxCop
• A Brief Introduction to FxCop
• Using FxCop s Stand-Alone GUI
• FxCop and ASP.NET
• FxCop Globalization Rules
• FxCop Spelling Rules
• Overview of New FxCop Globalization Rules
• Writing FxCop Globalization Rules
• Where Are We?
• Chapter 14. The Translator
• The Translation Process
• Translator or Localizer?
• TranslationLocalization Strategies
• Resource Translation Manager
• Reintegrating Resources
• Where Are We?
• Appendix A. New Internationalization Features in the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
• Compatibility
• .NET Framework Redistributable
• .NET Framework Language Packs
• .NET Framework
• Strongly Typed Resources
• Custom Cultures
• Visual Studio s Resource Editor
• Windows Forms
• ASP.NET
• Appendix B. Information Resources
• Books
• Resources
• Magazines
• Web Sites and FTP Sites
• Online Machine-Translation Web Sites
• Blogs
• Conferences
• Organizations
• Commercial Machine-Translation Products
• Alternatives to .NET Framework Internationalization
• Index
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