If you plan on distributing your application to an international audience, you'll need to keep several things in mind during the design and development phases. Even if you don't have such plans, a small effort up front can make things considerably easier should your plans change in future versions of your application. Services built into the .NET Framework make it easy to develop a single application that can adapt to different locales using managed development with Visual Studio.
Visual Studio was designed from the start to make developing for an international audience easy by taking advantage of services built into the .NET Framework. The following pages will help introduce you to the internationalization features built into Visual Studio.
Discusses the bi-directional features in Visual Studio, which support Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, and other languages that are written right-to-left.
Contains how-to topics and guidelines to help you globalize and localize your Windows Store app built using XAML and Visual C#, Visual Basic, or Visual C++.
Points out the classes in this namespace, which 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.
Points out the classes and interfaces in this namespace, which allows developers to create, store, and manage various culture-specific resources used in an application.
