Tuesday, March 25, 2003

I have to say that I'm a bit weary of Administration cronies getting paid as a result of the war. First Halliburton and now Richard Perle. Yes war does frequently provide a windfall for corporations but this is tad close. Halliburton? Couldn't they find anyone else more qualified? 6:25:28 PM     Drew Marsh - Databinding to Custom Objects Here's a great MSDN article on data-binding to custom types and collections of those types. It covers topics such as: Property Change Notifications Implementing IBindingList on collections classes Implementing IEditableObject on bindable classes Implementing IDataErrorInfo on bindable classes Overall I found the coverage of the features in this article to be excellent and a great extension to the SDK's basic documentation on the subject. I definitely recommend it to anyone who is writing their own business objects which they wish to use in data-binding scenarios. 5:44:51 PM     Scott Hanselman - Localization and Globalisation links In the process, I've collected these links on Globalization/Internationalization: Globalization & Localization Best Practices for Windows 2000 Compliant Software The Best Localization Directory - Dozens of great links and software Microsoft Global Development Portal Authoring HTML for Middle-Eastern Content Bidirectional Layout in the HTML 4.0 Spec (ÇåáÇ æ ÓåáÇ ãä ÇáÔÑ Þ Çáà æ ÓØ.) Microsoft Localization (Globalization) Toolkit - For Developing Localized ASP.NET Applications (Database Driven) I started by looking at this unsupported Microsoft tool with great interest.  It will sure teach you lots about how ASP.NET render controls.  It uses a database and reflection, overriding PreRender and Render and replacing keys with localized text.  It is very CPU intensive, but this can be mitigated by judicious use of the Output Cache directive.  However, for my sites, this isn't possible since each page is rendered specifically for each user.  I'm instead using a base class "LocalizedPage" with an optional virtual function "ApplyCulture" and some utilities to allow the user to localized controls.  Since pages are designed in the "local" language, only the 10% of (for example) Spanish users would cause increased CPU on a 90% English site.  More on this in the future... And by the way Scott it did finally dawn on me that I needed to use ILDASM . 5:43:42 PM

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