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.NET Internationalization: The Developer's Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications
By Guy Smith-Ferrier
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Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date: August 07, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-34138-4
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-34138-9
Pages: 672

Table of Contents  | Index

		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
			Installing/Registering Custom Cultures
			Uninstalling/Unregistering 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?
			Translation/Localization 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