.NET Interview questions and Answers: 14

Localization/Globalization

1. What is Unicode and why was it introduced?
2. Does .NET support UNICODE and how do you know it supports?
3. What’s the difference between localization and globalization?
4. What architecture decisions you should consider while planning for international software’s?
5. How do we get the current culture of the environment in windows and ASP.NET?
6. Which are the important namespaces during localization and globalization?
7. What are resource files and how do we generate resource files?
8. Can resource file be in any other format other than resx extensions?
9. How is resource files actually used in project?
10. How can we use Culture Auto in project?
11. What are satellite assemblies?
12. How do we generate Satellite assemblies?
13. What is AL.EXE and RESGEN.EXE?
14. What’s the use of resource manager class?
15. What precautions do we need to take while deploying satellite assemblies?
16. Can we get a strongly typed resource class rather than using resource manager?
17. Explain fundamentals of “GetGlobalResourceObject” and “GetLocalResourceObject” functions?
18. Can we sign a satellite assembly?
19. Can you explain collation sequence in sql server?
20. How do we define collation sequence for database and tables?
21. Can we change the order in a select query with a specified collation sequence?
22. What are the best practices to be followed while implementing globalization and localization?
23. Why is the culture set to the current thread?