Do you know that your Windows Forms App could switch between installed languages at run-time? An Input language is a Culture/Keyboard layout pair that determines how the physical keys on a keyboard map or plot to characters in a language (read more about...

In the last post we spoke about how to find what locale is currently selected as active. Now it's time to find how many and what input locales are installed on a PC. Here are two overloaded functions: one returns locale IDs as integer values (e.g. 1049...

Windows supports number of locales installed on the same computer. Current input locale could be important in some cases, for example in password request dialogs. Here is how you can find active locale in your WinForms App to warn user and prevent wrong...

As you know, some languages use left-to-right writing system and some – right-to-left. It is good pattern (and besides so easy in .NET Framework) to make other users to feel comfortable using your App even if no other localization is planned. Here is...

From the first version .NET Framework has rich set of functions that allow you to make your Application to be World ready. And the most interesting place to start is System.Globalization namespace which contains CultureInfo class. But if you have explored...