.NET Internationalization: The Developers Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications

In this chapter, we laid down the foundation of the internationalization process in .NET. We discussed the terminology used in this process; introduced the Culture-Info class upon which the whole internationalization process rests; presented the hierarchy of invariant, neutral, and specific cultures; used resx files to hold string resources; used the ResourceManager class to retrieve resources; localized resources; identified the purposes of the CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture properties; and illustrated how to use strongly-typed resources to improve the reliability of applications. These issues represent the cornerstone of .NET internationalization. You can now move on to Chapters 4 and 5, on Windows Forms and ASP.NET specifics.