Day 15. Writing International Applications

With the world coming closer together with the Internet, it's logical that software should recognize different localized cultural information, such as correct date, time, and currency formatting. Visual Studio .NET has built in-tools and classes that enable you to write applications that are truly international, and allow you to handle multiple localizations in a single application. Doing so makes your apps truly global in nature. Today, you learn

• What makes an application global

• How to retrieve culture-specific information

• How to write applications that handle multiple cultures

• How to use resource files in your application