I have a localized application with an js UI which calls C++ COM dlls. It is
localized.
On CHT calling create instance on one of the dlls is hanging for 13 minutes
while on other languages it is fine.

I need an urgent answer to the following question/problem:
1. I have a MS Excel (it's MS Office 2003) file with text strings in
German, French, Spanish, and English. The strings are translations for
a non-Unicode enable proprietary software. Therefore, I need to make

I think the MSDN docu uses in many places the word "characters" while it
really means "codepoint".
For example the docu of "MultiByteToWideChar":
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In VB.net windows forms,i have a checklistbox on one tab and when i move
to next tab ,the checkitem in the first tab clears.why?
give a solution?

I'm writing a service.  It seems I'm supposed to create a separate resource,
because if I try to use the default resource with the name of the project,
the VS Studio puts up very nasty message:
"Don't touch me, or I'll kill you and everyone you ever met!"

Guys,
Does anyone know the most effective way to customise the presentation for
different clients whilst maintain the same code base. Some of our clients
require different presentation of controls on forms e.g. different layouts

I've created my webapp on my local computer, and it all works fine. The
numbers are formatted as appropriate for my country (eg. 10 000 for ten
thousand). But when I upload to my server in the US, the format changes to
the American system (10,000 for ten thousand).

We have all of our text in one resource text file per language.  It's
getting large and hard to manage.  What are the best practices for
breaking up large resource files in ASP.NET?

I was storing my text strings in <page>.aspx.resx but I have since found that
if you use a visual designer (datasets in particular) it clears out anything
you manually put in there.
So, I have taken to creating a new resx file called <page>.en.resx, which of

Hi  All,
I am trying to install MUI  on my windows xp professional machine for
supporting
Indian languages like Telugu  , Hindi

Hello, all! I have question about String.Format method.
There are two variants: public static string Format(string, params
object[]); and public static string Format(IFormatProvider, string, params
object[]);

I try to open a project , and get the following message:
"open the application because the web server on this computer is not
running. Start the web server before proceeding".
I went to the administative tools -> internet  information services -> web

How do I know what Keyboard Mapping was choosen?
Thanks
JH

Does anyone have any good references, guides, best practices, musings or
examples of how to create a database that stores data from different users
and user languages from all over the world.  I understand .net Localization
and how and when to use Resource files and how to ...

What is the standard practice for throwing exceptions with
internationalization in mind? The Exception object requires a string.
Obviously, we shouldn't be hard-coding strings. Are we forced to load from a
resource file every time?