The Company….  The Market Leader in Globalization Technology –Pioneers in visual translation environments –Solutions for major platforms & programming languages –24.9% owned by Corel Corporation –Sales growing 60+% annually –Currently 10,000+ customers worldwide –Offices in Ireland and USA

Our Product…  Alchemy CATALYST delivers :- –Speed –Speed : Faster delivery of products to market –Consistency –Consistency : Automate product revisions with glossary and translation memory tools –ReducedCosts –Reduced Costs : Reduced QA/Engineering and Translation times using integrated environment Consistency Speed Reduced Costs

Agenda  What is Microsoft.NET ? –NET Framework –NamesSpaces – System.Globalization –Launching a.NET Application  Develop a.NET Application –Multi-Lingual Application –Create code to switch UI language  Localizing a.NET Application –Creating different language Cultures –Re-integrating translations  QA 60 mins

What is Microsoft.NET ?  Microsoft's platform for building, deploying, operating and integrating Web services –Rich XML, standard protocols –Cross-language development –Common language runtime Common type system for all languages Rich runtime environment –Rich class libraries (.NET Framework) Windows Forms for rich, Win32 applications Web application platform ASP.NET  Multi-lingual support –Rich API for internationalization features=

.NET Framework .NET Framework –Globalization Namespaces –Culture-sensitive classes –Resource Model  ASP.NET –International Support –Localization Options  VisualStudio.NET –Unicode Development Environment –XML –Unified IDE VB, C#, C++

.NET Framework  100% Unicode internally –Supports UTF-8 and UTF 16 encoding schemes  Consistent operations –Windows XP, Windows 2000, NT 4.0, 98, 95 etc.  Supports all NLS (Locale Support) –Collation Tables –String Comparisons –Language Processing (Casing etc.) –Currency, Date & Time etc.

Globalization Namespaces  Heart of the.NET Framework  System.Globalization –Core NLS services (Date/Time, Currency, String management etc.)  System.Resource –Multi-Lingual Resource Services  System.Text –Core character conversion Services. (To/From Unicode) Security Threading Text ServiceProcess I/O Reflection Net Resources Globalization Collections Diagnostics Serialization System

System.Globalization  Culture-aware String Services –String Management Casing, Comparison, Collation, Segmentation, Enumeration etc. –Date/Time Formatting dd/mm/yy, yy/mm/dd –Numeric Formatting 12,000,000 and –Calendar Support Gregorian, non-gregorian  Our focus today :- –CultureInfo ClassLocales

System.Globalization.CultureInfo  Information about specific cultures (Locales) –CurrentCulture String casing and comparison Collation Numeric Formatting  Culture Names –RFC 1766 Standard - de-ATde-CHde-DE Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(“es-ES"); CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture

System.Globalization.CultureInfo  Setting the UI of a.NET application  If not specified,.NET framework sets it for you ! –GetUserDefaultUILanguage –(ie UI Language of the OS) Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("fr"); CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture System. Globalization

Launching.NET Applications CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture using System.Globalization; fr-FR Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(“fr-FR"); French France Set UI Language to French, using Regional settings for France ! Example 1 LocaleLanguage

Launching.NET Applications CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture using System.Globalization; fr-CA Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(“fr-CA"); French Canada Set UI Language to French, using Regional settings for Canada ! Example 2 LocaleLanguage

Launching.NET Applications CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture using System.Globalization; en-CA Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(“en-CA"); English Canada Set UI Language to English, using Regional settings for Canada ! Example 3 LocaleLanguage

Launching.NET Applications de-AT de-DE de-LU de-CH Root.NET Application de ja Application Directory CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture RFC 1766 Standard Directory Structure Filename(s)

Launching.NET Applications de-AT de-DE de-LU de-CH Root.NET Application de ja Application Directory CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture Thread.CurrentThread.Current UICulture = new CultureInfo(“ja");

Launching.NET Applications de-AT de-DE de-LU de-CH Root.NET Application de ja Application Directory CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture Thread.CurrentThread.Current UICulture = new CultureInfo(“de");

Launching.NET Applications de-AT de-DE de-LU de-CH Root.NET Application de ja Application Directory CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture Thread.CurrentThread.Current Culture = new CultureInfo(“de- CH");

Launching.NET Applications de-AT de-DE de-LU de-CH Root.NET Application de ja Resource Fallback Mechanism CultureInfo CurrentUICulture CurrentCulture  Fallback mechanism used to locate appropriate resources de-CH –Attempt to load de-CH resource assemble de –If not available, load de assembly default –If not available, load default application resources exception –Else raise an exception! 1 2 3

Building.NET Applications  Resources are defined in XML documents –RESX Files  Filenames are significant –Main1.resx –Main1.fr.resx –Main1.de.resx  Satellite Assemblies –For each language variant.resx file.resource file.resource.dll file Compilation Process

Building.NET Applications  Resources are defined in XML documents –RESX Files  Filenames are significant –Main1.resx –Main1.fr.resx –Main1.de.resx  Satellite Assemblies –For each language variant RESX Structure Main1.resx Main1.fr.resx

Building.NET Applications  Resources are defined in XML documents –RESX Files  Filenames are significant –Main1.resx –Main1.fr.resx –Main1.de.resx  Satellite Assemblies –For each language variant RESX Structure Main1.resx Main1.fr.resx Main1.de.resx

Building.NET Applications  Resources are defined in XML documents –RESX Files  Filenames are significant –Main1.resx –Main1.fr.resx –Main1.de.resx  Satellite Assemblies –For each language variant Satellite Assemblies Main1.resx Main1.fr.resx Main1.de.resx Root.NET Application de fr Application Directory

Building.NET Applications  Resources are defined in XML documents –RESX Files  Satellite Assemblies –For each language variant  Filenames are significant –Main1.resx –Main1.fr.resx –Main1.de.resx Our First.NET Application Simple.NET Application En, Fr, De Languages Menu, Dialog, Strings Rich Text Editor

Translating.NET Applications  Satellite Assemblies  Translation Process –Insertion –Translation –Extraction  Application Rebuild –Microsoft C# compiler Application Directory Structure LrcApp.Exe de en fr Localization Process –.resx

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