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What's New in Windows Installer 4.5: Overview

August 27, 2007 Aug 27, 2007 08/27/07
Heath Stewart
The What's New section of the Windows Installer 4.5 CHM available in the downloads section of the Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Connect site has technical details of new functionality and changes as usual, but now that we can talk about Windows Installer 4.5 I wanted to provide an overview of the new functionality. I'll be detailing several ...

How Windows Installer uses Languages

October 25, 2006 Oct 25, 2006 10/25/06
Heath Stewart
Language support in Windows Installer can be confusing until you understand how Windows Installer queries for and uses languages. Some wonder why Windows Installer packages have two different places to set the language. Some wonder why, for example, localized packages install using a different language than the user's default UI language. Some...

New Locale-dependent C Runtime Functions

March 6, 2005 Mar 6, 2005 03/6/05
Heath Stewart
In "POSIX" style locale support on Windows?, Michael Kaplan, the Technical Lead for Windows Globalization, describes the existing locale-dependent functions in the C Runtime (CRT) as "unwieldy". To compare strings, for example, using a different locale than is currently set for the process or thread you must call setlocale() to ...

The Differences between Locales and Languages

February 17, 2005 Feb 17, 2005 02/17/05
Heath Stewart
In a recent change - while we were still known as Developer Division Sustained Engineering - I addressed a functional change that relied on locales instead of languages for MUI support. I see this mistake a lot in developer forums and so I wanted to address what the difference was between a locale and languages.A locale represents regional ...

Improvements to Localization in Visual Studio 2005

October 5, 2004 Oct 5, 2004 10/5/04
Heath Stewart
Designing and developing applications for the global economy can often be difficult, but the .NET Framework made globalization and localization much more simple. In Visual Studio 2005 resources are handled a little bit differently, providing you - the application developer - a class you can easily use throughout your application...