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Multilingual App Toolkit Developers focus on features, not languages Seamless localization workflow Instant access to translation services Enables community and professional services

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Globalization Demystified Windows.Globalization.NumberFormatting DecimalFormatter PercentFormatter CurrencyFormatter PermilleFormatter Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting DateTimeFormatter Windows.Globalization Calendar

Globalization Demystified AVOID Handcrafted formatting String.Format(“{0}/{1}/{2}”, Month, Day, Year) String.Format("${0:0.00}", 100.00); Ignoring user’s language preferences PrimaryLanguageOverride is permanent – use with care. Creating specialized calendar UI controls

Localization Demystified Use resource files for all localizable strings However, hard-code strings that should not be localized Translations may require 40% more space Utilize resource binding Store: x:Uid for XAML, data-win-res for HTML ResourceLoader.GetString(“MyResourceID”) Use resource qualifiers for culture specific images

Resources

Multilingual App Toolkit Resources http://aka.ms/matinstallv4 Download v4.0 http://aka.ms/matblog Announcements http://aka.ms/matvoice User voice site

Translation Resources http://www.MicrosoftTranslator.com/dev Microsoft Translator Developer Site http://www.microsoft.com/Language Microsoft Language Portal

Localization Samples http://aka.ms/datetime Date and time formatting sample http://aka.ms/numbers Number formatting and parsing sample http://aka.ms/apploc Application resources and localization sample