[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]
Purpose
This section contains how-to topics and guidelines for globalizing and localizing your Metro style app.
Windows is used worldwide, in a variety of different markets and for target audiences that vary in culture, region or language. Users can specify that they speak any language in the world, and they can even specify that they speak multiple of them. Users can also specify that they are located anywhere in the world. They can even speak any language in any location. You can use these guidelines and how-to topics to learn more about adapting your software for additional languages, markets, cultures, and regions. This information guides you through a set of best practices for development and point you to further information on how to prepare your app for international markets.
In this section
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Separate string resources into resource files, and reference those strings from your code or markup. | |
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Design your app to be global-ready, and you will be able to adapt it later for additional cultures, regions, and languages in the global market. | |
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Learn the various language and region settings that control how Windows selects UI resources and formats the UI elements of the app. | |
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Follow the steps and best practices described here to prepare your app for localization. | |
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Support right-to-left (RTL) layouts in your Metro style apps by following a few simple guidelines. | |
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Ensure that your app's content is internationalized consistently with external components and web services. | |
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Describes best practices for globalizing your apps to a wider audience or market and for localizing your apps for a specific audience or market. |
Build date: 5/22/2012
