Agility eLetter March, 2004

In this issue...

In this issue, we have a detailed article on Localization in .NET.

Abstract: Localization or Internationalization (I18N as it is sometimes called) is the process of blending an application to the local culture of the end user. An application needs to accommodate differences in language, currency, calendar, time and culture sensitive color and messages. Further this needs to be accomplished without having to change the code. In this article we address the capabilities of and facilities provided in .NET for localization. Please visit http://www.agiledeveloper.com/download.aspx to download the complete article from the Agile Developer web site.

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By default, in .NET, what will be the result of evaluating the expression a/b, if b is assigned a value of 0?

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Quiz from the past issue

While serializing using the XmlSerializer in .NET, how do we make the namespace appear in the xml document (as in xmlns:agile="http://www.agiledeveloper.com/ns1")?

Answer!

One approach is to provide a third argument of type XmlSerializerNamespaces to the Serialize method of the XmlSerializer class. The first best shot for an answer to this question came from Cisco!

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