Internationalization
and Software Development: Visual Basic
Course
Description
This course introduces how Internationalization concepts
are implemented by Visual Basic. In particular its locale
and encoding support are described, which i18n issues
are hard to implement, and how .NET arrives to save the
world.
Audience: The course is designed for Technical management,
software architects, developers and testers.
Duration: The course is approximately 4 hours in duration.
Prerequisites
The course has the following prerequisites:
Globalization Basics
Internationalization Platforms: MS Windows or Internationalization
Platforms: Unix/Linux/Solaris
Syllabus
1. The definition and use of Locale in VB
2. Encoding concepts and issues from a software development
aspect, especially concerning Unicode.
3. Review of locale sensitive functions/classes in VB
4. Improvements and changes between VB6 and VB.NET
5. Encoding Conversions
6. Pitfalls and issues
7. Coding standards and development environment
8. Resource Files (e.g. Satellite DLL's)
9. Question and Answer
Internationalization
and Software Development: Visual Basic
