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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| A Roadmap for the Internationalization Process | |
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| The Operating System | |
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| The .NET Framework and Visual Studio | |
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| Languages | |
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| Resource Formats | |
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| Languages and Cultural Formatting | |
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| Windows Forms Applications | |
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| ASP.NET Applications | |
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| Globalization | |
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| Localization | |
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| Machine Translation | |
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| Resource Administration | |
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| Testing | |
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| Translation | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Unicode, Windows, and the .NET Framework | |
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| Unicode | |
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| Code Pages | |
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| Unicode Windows | |
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| Code Page Windows | |
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| Virtual Machines | |
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| Windows Multilingual User Interface Pack | |
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| Language and Locale Support | |
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| .NET Framework Languages and .NET Framework Language Packs | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| An Introduction to Internationalization | |
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| Internationalization Terminology | |
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| World-Readiness | |
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| Localization | |
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| Customization | |
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| Internationalization Terminology Confusion | |
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| Cultures | |
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| Localizable Strings | |
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| How It Works | |
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| Resource File Formats | |
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| Resource Managers | |
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| Localized Strings | |
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| CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture | |
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| CurrentCulture, CurrentUICulture, and Threads | |
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| The Resource Fallback Process | |
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| NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute and UltimateResourceFallbackLocation | |
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| Image and File Resources | |
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| Adding Images and Files in Visual Studio 2003 | |
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| Strongly-Typed Resources in the .NET Framework 2.0 | |
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| ResGen | |
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| StronglyTypedResourceBuilder | |
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| Strongly-Typed Resources in the .NET Framework 1.1 | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Windows Forms Specifics | |
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| Localizing Forms | |
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| Property Assignment Model | |
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| Property Reflection Model | |
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| Localizing a Form | |
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| Setting the CurrentUICulture | |
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| Changing the Culture During Execution | |
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| Using Regional and Language Options to Change the Culture | |
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| Dialogs | |
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| Windows Resource Localization Editor (WinRes) | |
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| Resource File Mode | |
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| WinRes 2.0 and Cultures | |
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| WinRes 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003 Compatibility | |
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| WinRes and Visual Form Inheritance | |
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| WinRes Pros and Cons | |
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| ClickOnce | |
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| A Brief Introduction to ClickOnce | |
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| Deploying a Single Culture Using Visual Studio 2005 | |
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| The ClickOnce User Interface | |
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| Deploying a Single Culture Using msbuild | |
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| Deploying All Cultures Using Visual Studio 2005 | |
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| Deploying All Cultures Using msbuild | |
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| Deploying All Cultures Individually Using Visual Studio 2005 | |
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| Deploying All Cultures Individually Using msbuild | |
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| Download On Demand | |
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| .NET Framework Language Packs and ClickOnce Prerequisites | |
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| Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture and ClickOnce Security | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| ASP.NET Specifics | |
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| Localizability in .NET 1.1 | |
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| Automating Resource Assignment | |
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| Static Text | |
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| Calendar Control | |
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| Setting and Recognizing the Culture | |
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| Setting the Culture in Internet Explorer | |
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| Recognizing the User Culture | |
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| Setting the Culture in Configuration Files | |
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| Caching Output by Culture | |
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| Localizability in Visual Studio 2005 | |
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| How It Works | |
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| Resx Files, Application Domains, and Session State | |
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| Automatic Culture Recognition for Individual Pages | |
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| How It Works | |
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| Manual Culture Recognition for Individual Pages | |
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| Application-Wide Automatic Culture Recognition | |
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| Session/Profile vs. Page-Level Attributes | |
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| Explicit Expressions | |
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| Global Resources | |
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| Implicit Expressions vs. Explicit Expressions | |
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| Programmatic Resource Access | |
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| Localizing ASP.NET 2 Components | |
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| Login Controls | |
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| SiteMap Control | |
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| Localizing the Website Administration Tool | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Globalization | |
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| The CultureInfo Class | |
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| CultureInfo.GetCultures and CultureTypes Enumeration | |
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| The Relationship Between CultureInfo and Other Globalization Classes | |
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| The RegionInfo Class | |
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| Geographical Information | |
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| String Comparisons | |
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| Casing | |
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| Sort Orders | |
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| Alternate Sort Orders | |
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| Persisting Culture Identifiers | |
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| Calendars | |
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| Calendar Eras | |
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| Calendar.TwoDigitYearMax | |
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| DateTimes, DateTimeFormatInfos, and Calendars | |
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| DateTime.ToString, DateTime Parsing, and DateTimeFormatInfo | |
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| Genitive Date Support | |
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| DateTime.ToString and IFormatProvider | |
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| Numbers, Currencies, and NumberFormatInfo | |
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| International Domain Name Mapping | |
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| International Domain Names and Visual Spoofing | |
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| Environment Considerations | |
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| Extending the CultureInfo Class | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Middle East and East Asian Cultures | |
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| Supplemental Language Support | |
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| Right-to-Left Languages and Mirroring | |
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| Detecting a Right-to-Left Culture | |
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| Right-to-Left Languages and Mirroring in Windows Forms Applications | |
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| Right-to-Left Languages and Mirroring in ASP.NET Applications | |
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| Right-to-Left Cultures and Images | |
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| Input Method Editors | |
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| Installing an IME | |
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| How to Use an IME | |
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| Using an IME in a Windows Forms Application | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Best Practices | |
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| Font Selection | |
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| Font Terminology and the Font Class | |
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| Font Properties Extension | |
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| Getting Font Information Programmatically | |
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| Windows Forms Controls | |
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| ASP.NET Controls | |
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| The SystemFonts Class | |
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| Font Substitution | |
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| Font Linking | |
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| Font Fallback | |
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| Font Names Are Sometimes Translated | |
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| Font Strategy | |
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| Strings and String.Format | |
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| Text Ending with Colons | |
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| Embedded Control Characters | |
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| Exception Messages | |
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| Hot Keys | |
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| ASP.NET and Hot Keys | |
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| Windows Forms Best Practices | |
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| Form Layout | |
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| AutoSize | |
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| AutoSizeMode | |
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| AutoEllipsis | |
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| TableLayoutPanel and FlowLayoutPanel | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Machine Translation | |
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| How Good Is It? | |
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| Translation Engine | |
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| The ITranslator Interface | |
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| The Translator Class | |
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| The TranslatorCollection Class | |
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| Pseudo Translation | |
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| Choosing a Culture for Pseudo Translation | |
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| The PseudoTranslator Class | |
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| Static Lookup Translator | |
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| Web Service Translators | |
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| HTML Translators | |
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| Visual Studio 2003 WebBrowser Control | |
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| The AltaVistaTranslator Class | |
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| Office 2003 Research Services | |
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| WorldLingo Translation Services | |
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| Translator Evaluator | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Resource Administration | |
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| Resource Administrator | |
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| Keeping Sets of Resources in Synch | |
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| Automatic Translation of Strings | |
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| Resource Administrator Is Not Limited to Maintaining resx Files | |
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| Exporting Resources | |
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| Integrity Check | |
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| Add Resource String Visual Studio Add-In | |
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| Installing the Add-In in Visual Studio 2005 | |
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| Installing the Add-In in Visual Studio 2003 | |
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| Reading and Writing Resources | |
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| Reading Resources | |
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| Writing Resources | |
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| ResXDataNodes and Comments | |
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| ResX File References | |
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| Resource Governors | |
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| Data Nodes, Comments, and File References | |
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| The Resource Editor Control | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Custom Cultures | |
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| Uses for Custom Cultures | |
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| Using CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder | |
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| Installing/Registering Custom Cultures | |
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| Uninstalling/Unregistering Custom Cultures | |
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| Public Custom Cultures and Naming Conventions | |
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| Supplemental Substitute Custom Cultures | |
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| Custom Culture Locale IDs | |
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| Custom Culture Parents and Children | |
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| Support for Custom Cultures | |
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| Supplemental Custom Cultures | |
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| Bengali (Bangladesh) Custom Culture | |
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| Pseudo Translation Custom Culture | |
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| Culture Builder Application Sample (CultureSample) | |
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| Combining Cultures | |
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| Exporting Operating System-Specific Cultures | |
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| Company-Specific Dialects | |
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| Extending the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder Class | |
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| Custom Cultures and .NET Framework Language Packs | |
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| Custom Cultures in the .NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003 | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Custom Resource Managers | |
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| ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResource Manager | |
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| Incorporating resgen into the Build Process for Windows Forms | |
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| Incorporating resgen into the Build Process in ASP.NET 2.0 | |
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| Incorporating resgen into the Build Process in ASP.NET 1.1 | |
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| ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager in Practice | |
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| ResourceManager Exposed | |
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| ResourceManager.GetString | |
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| ResourceManager.GetString Example | |
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| ResourceManager.Constructors | |
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| ResourceManager.InternalGetResourceSet | |
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| ComponentResourceManager Exposed | |
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| Custom Resource Managers Examples | |
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| DbResourceManager | |
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| ResourcesResourceManager and ResXResourceManager | |
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| Writeable Resource Managers | |
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| DbResourceWriter | |
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| Writeable ResourcesResourceManager | |
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| TranslationResourceManager | |
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| StandardPropertiesResourceManager | |
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| ResourceManagerProvider | |
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| Using Custom Resource Managers in Windows Forms | |
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| Generating Strongly-Typed Resources for Sources Other Than resx Files | |
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| Generating Strongly-Typed Resources Which Use ResourceManagerProvider | |
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| Using Custom Resource Managers in ASP.NET 2.0 | |
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| The Resource Provider Model | |
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| Setting the ResourceProviderFactory | |
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| ResourceManagerResourceProviderFactory | |
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| DbResourceManagerResourceProviderFactory | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| Testing Internationalization Using FxCop | |
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| A Brief Introduction to FxCop | |
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| Using FxCop's Stand-Alone GUI | |
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| FxCop and ASP.NET | |
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| FxCop Globalization Rules | |
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| "Avoid duplicate accelerators" | |
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| "Do not hardcode locale specific strings" | |
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| "Do not pass literals as localized parameters" | |
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| "Set locale for data types" | |
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| "Specify CultureInfo" and "Specify IFormatProvider" | |
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| "Specify MessageBoxOptions" | |
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| FxCop Spelling Rules | |
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| Overview of New FxCop Globalization Rules | |
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| Resource Rules | |
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| Type/Resource Rules | |
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| Instruction Rules | |
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| Writing FxCop Globalization Rules | |
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| Getting Started Writing FxCop Rules | |
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| Type/Resource Rules | |
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| Instruction Rules | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| The Translator | |
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| The Translation Process | |
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| Translator or Localizer? | |
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| Translation/Localization Strategies | |
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| ASP.NET 2.0 Translation/Localization Strategies | |
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| Windows Forms and ASP.NET 1.1 Translation/Localization Strategies | |
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| Signed Assemblies | |
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| WinRes Translation/Localization Strategies | |
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| Resource Translation Manager | |
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| Reintegrating Resources | |
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| Where Are We? | |
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| New Internationalization Features in the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 | |
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| Compatibility | |
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| Windows Forms Compatibility | |
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| Windows Forms Designer | |
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| CultureInfo.DisplayName and CultureInfo.EnglishName with Scripts | |
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| CultureInfo.GetCultures Order | |
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| Control.DefaultFont Logic | |
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| CultureInfo.Equals Logic | |
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| CultureInfo.OptionalCalendars Has New Calendars | |
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| Base Data Has Changed for Some Cultures | |
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| ResX Relative File References Break Code That Uses ResXResourceReader | |
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| ResX Changes Break Code That Uses ResXResourceReader | |
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| .NET Framework Redistributable | |
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| .NET Framework Language Packs | |
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| .NET Framework | |
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| New IdnMapping Class | |
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| String Identifiers for Alternate Sort Orders | |
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| CultureInfo.GetCultures and CultureTypes Enumeration | |
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| New CultureInfo Properties | |
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| New CultureInfo Methods | |
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| String.Compare and StringComparison Enumeration | |
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| New DateTime Properties | |
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| New DateTimeFormatInfo Properties | |
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| New DateTime Methods | |
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| New Calendars | |
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| New Calendar Properties | |
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| New Calendar Methods | |
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| New CompareInfo Properties | |
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| New CompareInfo Methods | |
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| New RegionInfo Properties | |
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| New TextInfo Properties | |
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| New TextInfo Methods | |
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| New NumberFormatInfo Properties | |
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| New ResourceReader Methods | |
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| New ResXResourceReader Properties | |
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| New ResXResourceReader Methods | |
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| New ResXResourceWriter Methods | |
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| New String and StringInfo Methods | |
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| New CharUnicodeInfo Class | |
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| resx Files and File References | |
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| New ResourceManager Methods | |
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| Customizing the Fallback Process | |
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| ResView and ResExtract (Managed Resource Viewer) | |
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| Strongly Typed Resources | |
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| Custom Cultures | |
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| Visual Studio's Resource Editor | |
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| Windows Forms | |
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| Property Reflection Model | |
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| Control.AutoSize | |
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| Label.AutoSize Default | |
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| AutoSizeMode Property | |
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| AutoEllipsis Property | |
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| RightToLeftLayout Property | |
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| TableLayoutPanel and FlowLayoutPanel Controls | |
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| BackgroundWorker | |
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| WinRes | |
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| ASP.NET | |
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| Localizability | |
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| Web.config [left angle bracket]globalization[right angle bracket] culture and uiCulture Attributes | |
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| New Page Culture and UICulture Attributes | |
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| New Page.InitializeCulture Method | |
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| Web Control Properties Are Marked as Localizable | |
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| New Localize Control | |
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| Automatic resx File Change Detection | |
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| Information Resources | |
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| Books | |
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| Resources | |
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| Magazines | |
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| Web Sites and FTP Sites | |
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| Online Machine-Translation Web Sites | |
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| Blogs | |
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| Conferences | |
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| Organizations | |
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| Commercial Machine-Translation Products | |
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| Alternatives to .NET Framework Internationalization | |
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| Index | |