Localization

The Multilingual App Toolkitcan help you develop international apps that can reach a broader set of markets. This video covers several steps to consider when uploading your multilingual app to the Windows Store to make sure you app is available in all of the right markets. To download the…

In Windows 8, we wanted to make it really simple for developers to create Windows Store apps in multiple languages to reach more markets.The translation editor in the Multilingual App Toolkit allows you to manage and translate your app either manually or using the integrated Microsoft Translation…

The Multilingual App Toolkit can help you develop International apps that can reach a broader set of markets. Pseudo-localization will allow you to test the internationalization aspects of your app before you may incur costly translations. Through pseudo-localization, the Multilingual App…

In Windows 8 we wanted to make it really easy for you to reach more markets by providing tools to help you localize your Windows apps. This cool, set of tools is a free download that integrates into Visual Studio 2012, including the Express for Windows 8 edition. To download the Multilingual App…

This week Garrett McGowan, a Senior PM from the Developer Division GDX team, provides background information on Windows Forms Localization and Localizability concepts, including the use of Auto Layout techniques. The video includes a live demo showing the concepts being used in practice,…

In this short how-to video Andy Gonzalez, a PM from the Developer Division GDX team, shows you how to change the Display Language of Visual Studio. As always, stay tuned for more videos regarding globalization topics - and don’t forget to visit our team blog Global Developer. Other useful…

Third episode of this series of short talks on how to develop (and test) World-Ready applications.This is the last of the overview-type talks - the next ones will be more specific.What are Encodings and what is Unicode? Why it is not a good idea to "walk" strings a character at a…

Second episode of this series of short talks on how to develop (and test) World-Ready applications. In this one Aldo Donetti, Lead PM in the Developer Division's Globalization team, will introduce you to the concepts of Locales/Cultures, how they affect your application behavior and will provide…

This is the first of a series of short talks on how to develop (and test) World-Ready applications. In this one, Ashwini Gupta of the Globalization team of Developer Division will introduce you to the various aspects of building World-Ready applications. She will touch on important concepts like…

Achim Ruopp, an internationalization specialist and a former program manager at Microsoft, discusses the typical process of and efforts involved in internationalizing existing applications in this interview with Zhiming Xue. If you are interested to know how to plan and get started with the…