The long awaited Microsoft Locale Builder Beta 2 is now available for immediate download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e4588c5e-8f21-45cc-b862-38df8d9bd528&displaylang=en So now you too can (again) make a Klingon or...

My post Change to Unicode Encoding for Unicode 5.0 conformance now applies to .Net 2.0 with MS07-040 applied. Updates include a list of known issues, please see the list of known issues for MS07-040 described in KB 931212 for more information. KB 940521...

[12 July 2007] Updated with culture names on list of effected cultures The .Net patch of July 10th, ms07-049 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms07-040.mspx , changes culture names to use the new names on Windows XP/2003/2000 as well...

As I've said before, its often good to honor the user's international settings, which they can set using the intl.cpl (Regional and Language Options) control panel. Sometimes it is interesting to be able to configure these settings programmatically...