ASP.NET Specifics
By their very nature, ASP.NET applications are pushed out to the global audience, therefore the need for them to support internationalisation carries even more impetus. However, as the author has already mentioned a few times (unlike you and I, Dear Reader, the general public need to be told something three times before it sinks in), ASP.NET 1.1 internationalisation was “all your own work”. With ASP.NET 2.0, all that changed.
This chapter covers both 1.1 and 2.0, taking a reasonably deep dive into some code that has been automatically generated (which serves as a good learning tool). Code that helps internationalise 1.1 applications is also presented – it certainly is a manual process, you should endeavour to upgrade to 2.0 (or greater) as soon as is possible! Refreshingly, the author provides solutions and an analysis of how well the solution goes about dealing with this problem – such an approach only serves to enhance the reader’s understanding of the issues behind internationalisation.
Localisation in ASP.NET 2.0 is clearly a superior beast, a point well made by this author and one this reviewer has chosen to repeat throughout this review.
Comments