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Globalization and Localization Namespaces in Visual Studio

.NET Framework 2.0

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The namespaces in the .NET Framework for globalizing and localizing applications and components include:

System.Globalization - contains classes that define culture-related information, including the language, the country/region, the calendars in use, the format patterns for dates, currency and numbers, and the sort order for strings.
System.Resources - provides classes and interfaces that allow developers to create, store, and manage various culture-specific resources used in an application.
System.Resources.Tools - contains the StronglyTypedResourceBuilder class, which provides support for strongly-typed resources. This compile-time feature encapsulates access to resources by creating classes that contain a set of static read-only (get) properties, thus making it easier to consume resources.
System.Text - contains classes representing ASCII, Unicode, UTF-7, and UTF-8 character encoding.

Related Sections

Introduction to International Applications in Visual Basic and Visual C#: Describes how to create an international-ready application.

Globalizing and Localizing Applications: Explains how to design and develop applications to distribute to a global audience.

Best Practices for Developing World-Ready Applications: Describes how to plan applications that will be distributed to an international market.

International Changes in Visual Basic .NET: Summarizes for users of Visual Basic 6.0 how locale, resources, and Unicode are handled.

Introduction to the .NET Framework Class Library in Visual Studio: Provides an overview of the namespaces in the .NET Framework.

Resources in Applications: Provides information about Resource files in localized applications.