Sometime around the year 2000, Microsoft Corporation released the .NET (read as "dot net") integrated programming environment to consolidate and simplify the disparate set of tools (COM, database operations, Win32 programming, selective use of Unicode and so on) that had emerged over a period of 20-plus years of Windows development. Indeed, .NET was especially welcome to those who must provide an operational program that is also properly globalized. Finally, Microsoft had provided a clean, class- and Unicode-based programming environment with effective and easy-to-use locale ... To read this entire article you must be a MultiLingual subscriber. For immediate access to the current issue, subscribe to the digital version. Already a subscriber?

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