Global Developer Blog
The Global Developer Blog provides information to software developers and testers who are interested in international aspects of developer tools and technologies.
MSDN Blog in Chinese
In order to have wider audience reach, we have the following famous authors’ blogs localized...
Date: 11/22/2011
LightSwitch Howtos: Change the Date Format
In this short blog, you will learn how to change the Date format in your Microsoft® Visual...
Date: 10/28/2011
LightSwitch How To: Change the Run-Time Language
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 was released in a limited set of languages, but the runtime...
Date: 09/28/2011
LightSwitch How To: Change the Currency Symbol for Money
In this short blog, you will learn how to change the currency symbol for in your Microsoft®...
Date: 09/26/2011
Writing a Coded UI Test for an International Application
In this blog post we will see how to write a coded UI test for a Hindi application. For this we will...
Date: 08/25/2011
Reading and Display Date Values
One of the hottest topics in globalization is the topic of dates. Today we’ll see how we can...
Date: 08/16/2011
Localization Resources of Windows Phone
XNA is a tool set with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that enables video game...
Date: 08/04/2011
Introduction to Satellite Assemblies
A satellite assembly is a compiled library (DLL) that contains (“localizable”) resources...
Date: 07/22/2011
Web Matrix World Ready
WebMatrix has generated a lot of interest. It is a free tool that allows you to create, customize...
Date: 06/20/2011
WR Series: Windows Forms Localizability and Localization
This week Garrett McGowan, a Senior PM from the Developer Division GDX team, provides background...
Date: 06/17/2011
Some Thoughts on Initializing Silverlight Culture Properties
In his post Introducing xml:lang in XAML Mike Hedley discussed how that property plays an important...
Date: 06/13/2011
What is the First Day of the Week, Really?
If you are interested in a history lesson, try this lengthy explanation. Actually, it is quite...
Date: 06/03/2011
Awareness Blog: BhashaIndia.com
Awareness (India specific): Local language content always helps in enriching developers’...
Date: 05/31/2011
WR Series: Arabic a Complex Script
In this video, you will explore the different features of the Arabic language. First, we will add an...
Date: 05/26/2011
Shaping Arabic Characters
In a previous post, I talked about converting Arabic digits. Today I’ll talk to you about...
Date: 05/09/2011
WR Series: How to Change the Display Language of Visual Studio
In this short “how-to” video Andy Gonzalez, a PM from the Developer Division GDX team,...
Date: 05/04/2011
Introducing xml:lang in XAML
Introducing xml:lang in XAML In a previous blog post I wrote about locales and cultures and...
Date: 04/25/2011
Visual Studio 2010 International Survey Launched! (Brazilian Portuguese + Polish + Czech)
In addition to the previously launched Visual Studio 2010 International Survey in English, French,...
Date: 04/21/2011
What’s in a(n Identifier) Name?
Unicode serves as the basis for the char data type in many modern programming languages, including...
Date: 03/30/2011
Font Association (Part 1) - A Primer
Characters and GlyphsCharacters are the written symbols that we use to communicate ideas (e.g., N,...
Date: 03/18/2011
WR Series: What’s New in Globalization in .NET Framework 4
This episode touches on the new characteristics, changes, and improvements in the .NET Framework 4...
Date: 03/15/2011
Team Foundation Internationalization (Part 3) – Collation
In the last couple of posts (here and here) I wrote some considerations related to the UI Language...
Date: 03/11/2011
Visual Studio 2010 International Survey Launched!
The Microsoft Global Developer eXperience team has prepared a survey to collect your feedback on how...
Date: 02/22/2011
Team Foundation Internationalization (Part 2)
Last time I wrote some considerations related to the UI Language of Team Foundation (both Server and...
Date: 02/07/2011
Team Foundation Internationalization (Part 1)
In this blog, you will most often find posts on topics related to a particular technology, runtime...
Date: 02/01/2011
Announcing WikiBhasha Availability
If you haven’t noticed, WikiBhasha was just launched! :-) It is a multilingual content...
Date: 01/27/2011
Start Building an International Application for Windows Phone 7 (Part 1)
Most of you may have experience developing applications which can support different UI languages for...
Date: 01/17/2011
Silverlight: Arabic Reversed?
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for...
Date: 01/10/2011
Pitfalls of Chinese Conversion (Part 1)
After basic introduction of software Globalization from my team mates, I would like to talk about...
Date: 12/26/2010
Diacritics, Accents, Tashkeel
So what are diacritics anyway? Diacritic is a mark typically used in combination with another...
Date: 12/19/2010
Welcome to Global Developer Blog!
Global Developer Blog is hosted by GDX (Global Developer Experiences) team members from Microsoft....
Date: 11/15/2010