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...

Author: Global Developer 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...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT 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...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT 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®...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT 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...

Author: Ashwini Gupta 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...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT 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...

Author: Global Developer Date: 08/04/2011

Introduction to Satellite Assemblies

A satellite assembly is a compiled library (DLL) that contains (“localizable”) resources...

Author: andy.gonzalez 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...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT 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...

Author: Global Developer 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...

Author: Global Developer 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...

Author: andy.gonzalez Date: 06/03/2011

Awareness Blog: BhashaIndia.com

Awareness (India specific): Local language content always helps in enriching developers’...

Author: Ashwini Gupta 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...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 05/26/2011

Shaping Arabic Characters

In a previous post, I talked about converting Arabic digits. Today I’ll talk to you about...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT 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,...

Author: Global Developer 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...

Author: Mike Hedley - Microsoft 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,...

Author: Global Developer 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...

Author: Garrett McGowan MSFT 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,...

Author: Garrett McGowan MSFT 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...

Author: Global Developer 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...

Author: Aldo.NET 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...

Author: Global Developer 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...

Author: Aldo.NET 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...

Author: Aldo.NET Date: 02/01/2011

Announcing WikiBhasha Availability

If you haven’t noticed, WikiBhasha was just launched! :-) It is a multilingual content...

Author: Global Developer 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...

Author: Jnnet Date: 01/17/2011

Silverlight: Arabic Reversed?

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT 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...

Author: Terry Sheng Date: 12/26/2010

Diacritics, Accents, Tashkeel

So what are diacritics anyway? Diacritic is a mark typically used in combination with another...

Author: Dina Lasheen - MSFT Date: 12/19/2010

Welcome to Global Developer Blog!

Global Developer Blog is hosted by GDX (Global Developer Experiences) team members from Microsoft....

Author: Global Developer Date: 11/15/2010