Localization Like the Pros—Summary

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Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed the globalization and localization of .NET applications.

In the context of globalization of applications, we discussed the namespace System.Globalization to format culture-dependent numbers and dates. Furthermore, we discussed that sorting strings by default depends on the culture. We 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 in a custom store such as a database. The classes used with localization are in the namespace System.Resources.