Microsoft .NET Internationalization

Before ASP.NET, there was no structured support for the development of applications for global users. During the early development of ASP, developers found only scattered support for globalization in operating systems, browsers, ASPs and back-end systems. However, they seldom observed any automatic connectivity across these applications. Fortunately, developers did understand concepts such as character sets, code pages, browser languages, and fonts which we could leverage for the development of applications for global users. This document goes into a series of concepts that relate to a variety of those issues.

This article discusses the right choices for your use of CultureInfo and its related classes in the System.Globalization namespace in your future projects.

This website provides a whitepaper and samples that explain how to work with Arabic text and how to create applications for this region.

In-depth information about globalization and localization in the .NET Framework.

Page with links to articles that present you with an overview of globalization and localization and issues surronding them, how to plan for localization, and how to test for globalization and localization.

In Visual Studio .NET, there are two parts to creating a world-ready application: globalization, the process of designing applications that can adapt to different cultures, and localization, the process of translating resources for a specific culture...

Covers the namespaces in the .NET Framework for globalizing and localizing applications and components.

Tutorial to show how to work with text and image resources to build .NET-based applications, components, and Web applications using the .NET Framework SDK.

How to deploy and package localized applications using Microsoft Installer technology.

If you are creating complex forms, you may be dismayed by the performance of the automatic form localization provided for Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET. See the reasons why, and possible solutions.

The Localized Hello World sample demonstrates creating and using satellite assemblies for console applications.

The Windows Forms Localization sample demonstrates techniques for localizing a Windows Forms application with Visual Basic .NET.

The Localized Hello World sample demonstrates creating and using satellite assemblies for console applications.

The MultilingualForm sample demonstrates creating and localizing windows forms.

Samples that show how to handle different cultures, character encodings and currencies.

Samples that show the use of the System.Resources namespace which is mainly used for localization.

A range of samples demonstrating globalization & localization of ASP.NET applications.

This sample shows how to create a custom culture that can be used to load resources and provide formatting information.

This sample builds upon the support provided by the .NET Framework for Unicode surrogates pairs and combining characters and provides an easy way to walk such strings.