Today, I'll talk about changing the input language for a textbox at runtime, in VS 2005. The might have two textboxes and each would expect a different input language. In my example, I need TextBox1 to receive Arabic input, while TextBox2 should receive...

It’s been such a long time since my last blog entry but I’m finally back. I had a very long time Out Of Office (OOF), I really re-charged my energy but I’m swamped with work. So many things happened since my last blog. The launch of Windows Server, 2008...

The command prompt doesn’t have support of bidi languages. Therefore the components that run from the command line need not support Bidi languages. This is a limitation of Windows, which doesn’t support Bidi code pages in the console. So what should we...

I discovered the http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/MSDN is now redirected to a new MSDN page. In the past I published some articles about Arabic developement that is still relevant to date. So I'll re-publish them through my blog. So I'll regularly...

I had a customer question about using Um Al Qura calendar in SQL Server. There is an existing implementation in the .NET Framework, starting from version 2.0 of UmAlquraCalendar. So what you need to do is define a new CLR type based on the UmAlQuraCalendar...

To get you started I wrote this simple sample that uses the Visual Studio International Pack 2.0 (VSIntlPack2), numeric conversion module to convert the numbers to Arabic words. This is an easy walk through to use the numeric conversion. First download...

I talked before about changing the input language in a textbox in Windows Forms but what about WPF? In WPF, you should use the InputLanguageManager class. You can use it in either the code or in the XAML markup. I wrote a sample to demo an application...

Drawing Text using FormattedText FormattedText Class offers low-level method to manage drawing text in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It processes text as graphical elements, instead of text in controls such as the TextBox and TextBlock, which...

I had an interesting customer scenario, which is common among developers that deal with more than language. Basically you have an English WinForm application that uses the DataGridView , but you have the Names field in Arabic. So, you want to keep the...

You moved to Windows 7 and tried to deploy and install Arabic or right-to-left VB6.0 application on this environment. The VB 6.0 applications is working but with some exceptions. Some symptoms of the issues: • In VB 6IDE the devs are not...