Professional C# 2005 with .NET 3.0

This chapter discussed the globalization and localization of .NET applications.

In the context of globalization of applications, you learned about using the namespace System .Globalization to format culture-dependent numbers and dates. Furthermore, you learned that sorting strings by default depends on the culture, and you used the invariant culture for a culture-independent sort.

Localization of applications is accomplished by using resources. Resources can be packed into files, satellite assemblies, or a custom store such as a database. The classes used with localization are in the namespace System.Resources.