Visual Studio International and other interesting technology

Silverlight v4 Beta released for JPN

2009-12-16T00:26:00Z

Silverlight v4 Beta JPN SDK is released at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ja&FamilyID=a53019b2-4370-4e8a-a940-518f538c759f

Silverlight v4 Beta JPN SLtools is released at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ja&FamilyID=68a158af-9bb8-4855-a724-d09d196eaaf3

If you have Dev10 Beta2 JPN installed, you can install JPN SLTools which will install developer runtime, JPN SDK and tools as part of the setup and you can create JPN Silverlight 4 apps.

East Asia risky characters

2009-09-21T21:24:00Z

EA-Risky Characters

The Risky Characters - ANSI Code page

The Risky characters are at the EA-lang is based on ANSI code page. This section contains the following sections.

Border Characters (code below is in Hex)

JPN	8141	9FFC	E040	FC4B
JPN
KOR	8141	C55A	8161	C57A	8181	FDFE
KOR
CHT	A141	F97E	A1A1	F9FE
CHT
CHS	8140	FE7E	8180	F7A1	FEA0	F7FE
CHS

The trailing byte is the same as code for a specific symbol (3 examples) (code below is in Hex)

Symbol	JPN			KOR	CHT			CHS
' [ ' (5B)	835B	E05B	FB5B	N/A	A45B	A55B	C65B	N/A
' [ ' (5B)
' \ ' (5C)	835C	E05C	FB5C		A55C	B35C	C05C
' \ ' (5C)
' ] ' (5D)	835D	E05D	FB5D		A45D	A55D	A75D
' ] ' (5D)
'_' (5F)	835F	E05F	FB5F		A55F	A75F	B45F
'_' (5F)
' { ' (7B)	837B	E07B	FB7B		A67B	B27B	BB7B
' { ' (7B)
' \| ' (7C)	837C	E07C	FB7C		A57C	B07C	B57C
' \| ' (7C)
' } ' (7D)	837D	E07D	FB7D		A77D	A87D	AE7D
' } ' (7D)

The trailing byte is in the range of Leading bytes (4 examples) (code below is in Hex)

JPN	8181	9F9F	E0E0	FBFB
JPN
KOR	A2A2	9F9F	E0E0	FBFB
KOR
CHT	A4EB	A4FD	B2BC	C4B5
CHT
CHS	8181	BABA	A0A0	F7F7
CHS

The risky characters in 4-bytes – GB18030 (4 examples)

CHS

0x8139 0xEE39

(U+3400)

0x8139 0xFE39

(U+34a2)

0x8230 0x8130

(U+34a3)

0x8235 0x8738

(U+4DB5)

The Risky Characters - Unicode

The Risky characters are at the EA-lang is based on Unicode. This section contains the following sections.

Hangul Jamo contains the symbol character

U+1100 – U+11FF

Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code
0x00	U+1100	' ) ' (29)	U+1129	' = ' (3D)	U+113D

0x01	U+1101	*' ' (2A)**	U+112A	' > ' (3E)	U+113E

' ! ' (21)	U+1121	' + ' (2B)	U+112B	' ? ' (3F)	U+113F

' " ' (22)	U+1122	' , ' (2C)	U＋112C	' @ ' (40)	U+1140

' # ' (23)	U+1123	' - ' (2D)	U+112D	' { ' (7B)	U+117B

'$' (24)	U+1124	' . ' (2E)	U+112E	' \| ' (7C)	U+117C

' % ' (25)	U+ 1125	'/' (2F)	U+112F	' } ' (7D)	U+117D

' &' (26)	U+1126	':' (3A)	U+113A	' ~ ' (7E)	U+117E

' ' ' (27)	U+1127	' ; ' (3B)	U+113B

' ( ' (28)	U+1128	'<' (3C)	U+113C

The characters of CKJ Symbols and Punctuation contains the symbol character

U+3000 – U+303F

Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code
0x00	U+3000	'$' (24)	U+3024	':' (3B)	U+303B
0x00	IDSP ※1	'$' (24)		':' (3B)
0x01	U+3001	' % ' (25)	U+ 3025	' ; ' (3C)	U+303C
0x01		' % ' (25)		' ; ' (3C)
' ! ' (21)	U+3021	' &' (26)	U+3026	'<' (3D)	U+303D
' ! ' (21)		' &' (26)		'<' (3D)
' " ' (22)	U+3022	' ( ' (28)	U+3028	' = ' (3E)	U+303E
' " ' (22)		' ( ' (28)		' = ' (3E)
' # ' (23)	U+3023	' ) ' (29)	U+3029
' # ' (23)		' ) ' (29)

※1 U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE

Hangul Compatibility Jamo contains the symbol character

U+3130 – U+318F

Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code
‘ : ’(3A)	U+313A	'@' (40)	U+ 3140	'`' (60)	U+3160

‘ ; ’(3B)	U+313B	' [' (5B)	U+315B	' {' (7B)	U+317B

'<' (3C)	U+313C	'\' (5C)	U+315C	'\|' (7C)	U+317C

'=' (3D)	U+313D	' ] ' (5D)	U+315D	'}' (7D)	U+317D

'>' (3E)	U+313E	'^' (5E)	U+315E	'{' (7E)	U+317E

'?' (3F)	U+313F	'_' (5F)	U+315F

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

U+3200 – U+32FF

Symbol	CCJ	Symbol	KOR
' ! ' (21)	U+3221	0x00	U+3200
' ! ' (21)		0x00
*' ' (2A)**	U+322A	'`' (60)	U+3260
*' ' (2A)**		'`' (60)
':' (3A)	U+323A	' { ' (7B)	U+327B
':' (3A)		' { ' (7B)

CJK Compatibility contains the symbol character.

U+3200 – U+32FF

Symbol	JPN
0x00	U+3300
0x00
' " ' (22)	U+3322
' " ' (22)
' \ ' (5C)	U+335C
' \ ' (5C)
' { ' (7B)	U+337B
' { ' (7B)

The characters in of CKJ Ideographs contains the symbol character.

U+4E00 – U+9FFF

Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code
0x00	U+7C00	' - ' (2D)	U+9A2D	' ^ ' (5E)	U+6B5E

0x01	U+9E01	' . ' (2E)	U+582E	' _ ' (5F)	U+4E5F

' ! ' (21)	U+5C21	'/' (2F)	U+912F	'`' (60)	U+4E60

' " ' (22)	U+4E22	':' (3A)	U+853A	' { ' (7B)	U+897B

' # ' (23)	U+5B23	' ; ' (3B)	U+693B	' \| ' (7C)	U+9A7C

'$' (24)	U+7E24	'<' (3C)	U+853C	' } ' (7D)	U+667D

' % ' (25)	U+ 7F25	' = ' (3D)	U+733D	' ~ ' (7E)	U+9B7E

' &' (26)	U+8D26	' > ' (3E)	U+9B3E	0xFF	U+81FF

' ( ' (28)	U+9E28	' ? ' (3F)	U+763F

' ) ' (29)	U+5B29	' @ ' (40)	U+8A40

*' ' (2A)**	U+9F2A	' [ ' (5B)	U+8F5B

' + ' (2B)	U+4E2B	' \ ' (5C)	U+9C5C

' , ' (2C)	U＋4F2C	' ] ' (5D)	U+5E5D

CKJ Extension A contains the symbol code.

U+3400 – U+4DBF

Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code
0x00	U+3800	' - ' (2D)	U+362D	' ^ ' (5E)	U+355E

0x01	U+3701	' . ' (2E)	U+342E	' _ ' (5F)	U+365F

' ! ' (21)	U+3421	'/' (2F)	U+382F	'`' (60)	U+3B60

' " ' (22)	U+3722	':' (3A)	U+373A	' { ' (7B)	U+3B7B

' # ' (23)	U+4723	' ; ' (3B)	U+4B3B	' \| ' (7C)	U+477C

'$' (24)	U+4A24	'<' (3C)	U+493C	' } ' (7D)	U+497D

' % ' (25)	U+ 4525	' = ' (3D)	U+453D	' ~ ' (7E)	U+347E

' &' (26)	U+3C26	' > ' (3E)	U+493E	0xFF	U+3EFF

' ( ' (28)	U+3428	' ? ' (3F)	U+3E3F

' ) ' (29)	U+4A29	' @ ' (40)	U+3840

*' ' (2A)**	U+492A	' [ ' (5B)	U+445B

' + ' (2B)	U+432B	' \ ' (5C)	U+385C

' , ' (2C)	U+372C	' ] ' (5D)	U+355D

Hangul Syllables contains the symbol character

U+AC00 – U+D7AF

Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code	Symbol	Char-code
0x00	U+B000	' - ' (2D)	U+D42D	' _ ' (5F)	U+D15F

0x01	U+B501	' . ' (2E)	U+CB2E	'`' (60)	U+C260

' ! ' (21)	U+C621	'/' (2F)	U+C72F	' { ' (7B)	U+B97B

' " ' (22)	U+C322	':' (3A)	U+B83A	' \| ' (7C)	U+B57C

' # ' (23)	U+B823	' ; ' (3B)	U+B23B	' } ' (7D)	U+BC7D

'$' (24)	U+B424	'<' (3C)	U+BD3C	' ~ ' (7E)	U+AC7E

' % ' (25)	U+ BA25	' = ' (3D)	U+B83D	0xFF	U+C0FF

' &' (26)	U+C426	' > ' (3E)	U+C03E

' ' ' (27)	U+B227	' ? ' (3F)	U+B13F

' ( ' (28)	U+AE28	' @ ' (40)	U+BB40

' ) ' (29)	U+D729	' [ ' (5B)	U+D75B

*' ' (2A)**	U+AC2A	' \ ' (5C)	U+D35C

' + ' (2B)	U+B72B	' ] ' (5D)	U+C75D

' , ' (2C)	U+BA2C	' ^ ' (5E)	U+B85E

what is system locale?

2009-09-21T21:03:00Z

System Locale: The system locale determines the Windows code page used by the ANSI (non-Unicode) version of Win32 APIs. String and character parameters passed to a Win32 API are converted from this Windows code page to Unicode. This is especially true to applications written in Visual Basic 6. This is a system level setting and requires a reboot after changing.

· The Unicode only scripts have no system locale such as Indic family, Armenian, Georgian, and …

· Only an administrator has the right to change the system locale.

Silverlight in Dev10

2009-08-21T20:57:00Z

Setup the environment (needs the matching language SDK installed on Dev10)

-->Silverlight Tools V3 is not installable on top of Dev10 as Silverlight Tools V3 is intended to be installed on top of Visual Studio 2008.

Install developer runtime if newer one doesn’t exist (can be installed from www.microsoft.com/silverlight)
Uninstall SL3 SDK if exists and an older build than payload
Install new SL3 SDK if newer build doesn’t exist than payload

Multitargeting

Users can select Silverlight template

2. a drop down will allow the user to target different versions of Silverlight.

The toolbox and design surface should reflect controls and intellisense available to the selected version of Silverlight.

3. Existing projects may be updated to target different versions of Silverlight via the property pages of the project. This will change the version of the assemblies that the Silverlight application is built against.

The toolbox and design surface should update to reflect controls and intellisense available to the selected version of Silverlight.

Japanese version of Silverlight 3.0 documentation is launched!

2009-08-21T20:33:00Z

The Japanese version of Silverlight 3.0 Documentation is now available from the MSDN Online Library and the Microsoft Download Center.

Silverlight 3 localized versions are released!

2009-07-30T20:54:00Z

Silverlight Tools

This will install developer runtime and localized SDK.

Traditional Chinese	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=zh-tw&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd
DEU	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=de&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd
ESN	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=es&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd
FRA	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=fr&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd
ITA	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=it&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd
JPN	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ja&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd
KOR	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ko&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd
Simplified Chinese	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=zh-cn&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd

Silverlight V3 JPN is released.

2009-07-18T01:37:00Z

JPN Silverlight 3 SDK is released at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ja&FamilyID=2050e580-f1d5-4040-bb09-e6185591b6b5

JPN Silverlight 3Tools is released at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ja&FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd

Users can install JPN SDK and SLTools on top of JPN Visual Studio 2008 + SP1 and create Silverlight apps. The skus' that they can be installed on are VSTS, Pro, STD.

Silverlight V3 released to the public!

2009-07-15T00:35:00Z

Check out www.silverlight.net, www.microsoft.com/silverlight, www.microsoft.com/web, silverlight.codeplex.com sites for details!

Localized versions of Silverlight V3 SDK and SLTools are coming our way.

How to set different language locale on Windows Vista OS?

2009-06-22T21:37:00Z

1. If you need to install OS langpack, install MUI (OS langpack) on English Vista (go to Control panel->regional and Language Options->Keyboards and Languages tab->’Install/uninstall languages’ under ‘display language’

2. Go to Control Panel->Regional and Language Options

1. System Locale

2. User Locale

3. Input Locale

4. User Interface Locale

Silverlight V3 Beta launched!

2009-03-19T03:49:00Z

If you have JPN Visual Studio 2008 installed, you can install the Runtime which has Japanese resources inside and SLTools below and create the Silverlight apps targeting version 3.

Runtime:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=143433

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Japanese):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ja&FamilyID=11dc7151-dbd6-4e39-878f-5081863cbb5d

SDK (Japanese):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ja&FamilyID=d09b6ecf-9a45-4d99-b752-2a330a937bc4

Documentation (English):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838158(vs.96).aspx.

Blend 3 Preview (English):
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/blendpreview

Silverlight V2 Tools and SDK live

2009-01-28T21:06:00Z

Silverlight V2 Tools

· CHT

DMT page details: Chinese - Taiwan
Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D/6/5D6B8CC0-1A92-42FF-B34C-8E255D6E8DE3/Silverlight_Tools.exe

· CHS

DMT page details: Chinese - China
Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/8/218414F1-33DA-45B6-9007-18A1566D0D41/Silverlight_Tools.exe

· KOR

DMT page details: Korean - Korea

Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/5/7452614F-B836-4A88-AC37-157371EF87D5/Silverlight_Tools.exe

· ESN

DMT page details: Spanish (Traditional Sort) - Spain

Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/B/21BA7418-C2D7-4709-9F22-A2187FAE8153/Silverlight_Tools.exe

· DEU

DMT page details: German - Germany

Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/2/2/E2251D3C-C03B-46F0-B392-D2C45DD7B4B5/Silverlight_Tools.exe

· FRA

DMT page details: French - France

Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/E/4/8E4EDB7F-6002-43F9-9C20-AC13EE1A6D7E/Silverlight_Tools.exe

· ITA

DMT page details: Italian - Italy
Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/B/3/2B35E5F9-7B7F-44BE-B97D-D60EB339ED4A/Silverlight_Tools.exe

Silverlight V2 SDK

--DMT page details : Japanese - Japan

The live path to the SDK bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/2/7/a274e7f5-35b4-4152-b592-01b616304e25/silverlight_sdk.exe

-- DMS page details: German, de-DE

The live path to the SDK bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/4/E/E4E22E3B-8344-44BF-8090-4F1A72A4A346/silverlight_sdk.exe

-- DMS page details: Spanish, es-ES

The live path to the SDK bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/6/A/76A1024D-2C8C-4CFF-99A0-391132B9AC41/silverlight_sdk.exe

-- DMS page details: French, fr-FR

The live path to the SDK bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/A/0/5A016BDF-418A-4186-9E67-002BB9BAE9EC/silverlight_sdk.exe

-- DMS page details: Italian, it-IT

The live path to the SDK bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/4/7/247658FC-4F76-4392-BD06-5EFA605C107D/silverlight_sdk.exe

-- DMS page details: Korean, ko-KR

The live path to the SDK bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/C/5/9C5C3AD3-A6AA-436B-987A-FB8493B50BD4/silverlight_sdk.exe

-- DMS page details: Simplified Chinese, zh-CN

The live path to the SDK bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/3/4/F344096C-C70F-4381-B770-D43E919CD593/silverlight_sdk.exe

-- DMS page details: Traditional Chinese, zh-TW

The live path to the SDK bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/6/8/068600D9-3D27-4CCD-92EE-AE87DBAD90C0/silverlight_sdk.exe

Silverlight 2 Docs to MSDN online and SDK CHM documentation to Download center

2009-01-28T21:06:00Z

Silverlight 2 Docs to MSDN online and SDK CHM documentation to Download Center.

MSDN	DMT page (CHM)
FRA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	FRA DMT Download
ITA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	ITA DMT Download
DEU: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	DEU DMT Download
ESN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	ESN DMT Download
CHS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	CHS DMT Download
CHT: http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-tw/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	CHT DMT Download
KOR: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ko-kr/library/cc838158(vs.95).aspx	KOR DMT Download

Localized Silverlight V2 Beta2 SLTools released

2008-06-16T21:58:00Z

You can check out the localized versions of Silverlight V2 Beta2 SilverlightTools at below links.

Bits: http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/e/2/ae28ad37-d4f6-4258-87a0-8b76fcffbceb/silverlight_chainer.exe

DMT page details: Japanese-Japan

Bits http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/a/2/da2faa08-a79a-43d3-8c08-a66935f55d7d/silverlight_chainer.exe

DMT page details: Chinese - China

Bits http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/2/d/42dbaf5f-fd20-4024-a192-3114b5494890/silverlight_chainer.exe

DMT page details: Chinese - Taiwan

Bits http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/7/1/f714e41e-d3fa-485a-af44-5dc366df4e19/silverlight_chainer.exe

DMT page details: Korean - Korea

Bits http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/a/f2a30afb-0c61-41ce-99f4-579d96a60c79/silverlight_chainer.exe

DMT page details: German - Germany

Bits http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/f/9/0f9f3f2d-e441-4f52-b2f8-3547a15ed2a7/silverlight_chainer.exe

DMT page details: French - France

Bits http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/5/0e58d69d-994b-4d7c-ad64-65726b693b86/silverlight_chainer.exe

DMT page details: Italian - Italy

Bits http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/2/f/a2f19df4-e5ad-4586-b0ed-f19e32b57f7d/silverlight_chainer.exe

DMT page details: Spanish (Traditional Sort) - Spain

Silverlight V2 Beta2 Globalization readme

2008-06-14T01:28:00Z

CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture values are not isolated when hosting multiple Silverlight controls on the same page
If you host multiple Silverlight controls on the same web page, setting the CurrentCulture and/or CurrentUICulture values in one control will affect the values in all other controls on the page.

The CurrentCulture and CurrentUICultures can be initialized via the <object> tag’s param tags:
<param name="culture" value="fr-FR" />
<param name="uiculture" value="fr-FR" />

Or programmatically:
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("fr-FR");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("fr-FR");

Setting the values on the param tags will initialize the UI thread’s CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture values and setting the values programmatically will initialize the current thread’s CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture values (if called from the UI thread, it will set the values of the UI thread). If these values are not explicitly set, Silverlight will initialize the values with current user’s OS culture settings.

If you do need to host multiple Silverlight controls on the same page with Silverlight 2 Beta 2, either choose not to explicitly set the CurrentCulture/CurrentUICulture values (Silverlight will use the user’s OS culture settings) or use the same values for all controls.

System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateFormat.Calendar under zh-TW does not pick up Control panel settings for non-Gregorian calendar
This means that formatting dates for this culture on Windows will be incorrect since it does not pick up the non-Gregorian calendar from the control panel's culture settings.

Some CultureInfo data, such as date and number formats, are not available on certain operating systems, so the data from the Invariant Culture is used instead.
System.Globalization.CultureInfo uses culture data provided by the underlying operating systems. Some operating systems do not provide access to certain properties, so data from the Invariant culture is used instead. For example, Windows does not provide data for the MonthDay pattern, so the pattern of the Invariant culture is used instead.

DateString function defaults to MM-dd-yyyy on East Asian systems
The VisualBasic DateString returns dates in MM-dd-yyyy format whereas earlier VB implementations formatted to yyyy-MM-dd on systems with an East Asian language selected as the Language for non-Unicode programs.

more info on Silverlight V2 Beta2-http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/readme.aspx?v=2.0&sdk=true

Globalization Of The Testing Process

2008-06-14T01:18:00Z

Globalization Of The Test -Goals

•Globalization -property of the functionality, not an application’s feature

•Functions must be tested for globalization

•Globalized test covers

•Multilingual text handling

•Processing of multiple scripts

•Proper handling of encodings

•Locale awareness

•Following the locale or user’s settings

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/a/d9a0bfd9-faa5-4f36-80c2-e8a87bc67aab/A24-367.pdf

Visual Studio International and other interesting technology

Silverlight v4 Beta released for JPN

East Asia risky characters

Symbol

Char-code

Symbol

Char-code

Symbol

Char-code

what is system locale?

Silverlight in Dev10

Japanese version of Silverlight 3.0 documentation is launched!

Silverlight 3 localized versions are released!

Silverlight V3 JPN is released.

Silverlight V3 released to the public!

How to set different language locale on Windows Vista OS?

Silverlight V3 Beta launched!

Silverlight V2 Tools and SDK live

Silverlight 2 Docs to MSDN online and SDK CHM documentation to Download center

Localized Silverlight V2 Beta2 SLTools released

Silverlight V2 Beta2 Globalization readme

Globalization Of The Testing Process