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Developing Arabic Applications with Visual Studio 2005 Dina Lasheen Program Manager – Developer Division
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Agenda What is special about Arabic What’s new in Windows forms What’s new in localizing ASP.NET 2.0 What’s new in the.NET framework Conclusion & Questions
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A complex script is one that requires special processing, such as: Arabic is a complex scripts Bi-directional (BiDi) reordering (Arabic) Contextual shaping (Arabic, Indic family) Display of combining characters (Arabic, Thai, Indic)
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Agenda What is special about Arabic What’s new in Windows forms What’s new in localizing ASP.NET 2.0 What’s new in the.NET framework Conclusion & Questions
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What’s new in Windows Forms New Controls: –Strip Controls: ToolStrip MenuStrip ContextMenuStrip StatusStrip
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What’s new in Windows Forms New Controls: Layout Controls SplitContainer FlowLayoutPanel TableLayoutPanel More new Controls…
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What’s new in existing controls Some controls had problems in displaying RightToLeft content. For example: Treeview, Listview, DateTimePicker, MonthCalendar, Form, ProgressBar, Tabcontrol, TrackBar. They didn’t layout from the right and didn’t produce the expected rtl behavior. Solution: New property, RightToLeftLayout
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Highlights of RightToLeftLayout Set both RightToLeft and RightToLeftLayout Does not inherit down control hierarchy Mirrors images – if this is not a desired behavior, you need to supply a mirrored image set. Form.BackgroundImage is not supported while RightToLeftLayout= True. Should use GDI to render text instead of GDI+: –TextRenderer.DrawText( …) instead of Graphics.DrawString
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Demo (Windows From)
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Agenda What is special about Arabic What’s new in Windows forms What’s new in localizing ASP.NET 2.0 What’s new in the.NET framework Conclusion & Questions
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ASP.NET 2.0 and right-to-left Full right-to-left pages –Set DIR attribute on HTML tag using an explicit resource expression Direction property on –Can be explicitly defined –Can be loaded using a resource expression –Useful for mixed left-to-right/right-to-left pages أهلا و مرحباً
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ASP.NET Localization v. 1.0/1.1 –Uses.NET resource model –No design time assistance v. 2.0 –Uses.NET resource model –Provides a simple declarative model for localization –Design time resource generation –Edit using the resource editor –Server side compile of.resx files –Auto-detection of browser culture
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Explicit Expressions Used on any control or object property Fine-grained handling for properties which are not localizable by default Access application or local resources Runtime –Used to obtain resource value and perform property assignment Design-time –Developer can create expressions against control properties in “Expressions…” dialog
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Non-explicit Expressions Used to partially or fully localize an ‘object’ with minimal syntax –Controls, sub-objects, page directive Only used to access local resources Generated by the designer
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Demo (ASP.NET 2.0 localization)
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Change the page direction Programmatic Declarative <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"runat="server" dir= " "> void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.TextInfo.IsRightToLeft) html.Attributes["dir"] = "rtl"; }
![Change the page direction Programmatic Declarative <html xmlns= runat= server dir= > void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.TextInfo.IsRightToLeft) html.Attributes[ dir ] = rtl ; }](http://images.slideplayer.com./8/2471887/slides/slide_16.jpg "Change the page direction Programmatic Declarative <html xmlns= runat= server dir= > void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.TextInfo.IsRightToLeft) html.Attributes[ dir ] = rtl ; }")
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Demo (ASP.NET 2.0 localization, cont…)
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Agenda What is special about Arabic What’s new in Windows forms What’s new in localizing ASP.NET 2.0 What’s new in the.NET runtime Conclusion & Questions
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.NET runtime improvements Custom Cultures –Replacement Cultures –Supplemental Cultures –Defining and Using Custom Cultures Improved Unicode Standard Support –International Domain Names –Normalization –Supplementary and Combining Characters –Unicode Character Data Information
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More … New Calendars –6 New Calendar classes Shortest day names –ShortestDayNames in DateTimeFormatInfo –Enables display of compact date strings/calendars UmmAlQura calendar support
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Demo (Calendar)
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Agenda What is special about Arabic What’s new in Windows forms What’s new in localizing ASP.NET 2.0 What’s new in the.NET framework Conclusion & Questions
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More information Arabic & International Support http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/MSDN http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev Get Involved! Product Feedback Center http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default. aspx MSDN Forums http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ Email : vsarabic@microsoft.com
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Agenda What is special about Arabic What’s new in Windows forms What’s new in localizing ASP.NET 2.0 What’s new in the.NET framework Conclusion & Questions
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