German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Today we launched a Chinese and German content section on the www.asp.net web-site (so you can find localized articles, blogs, forums and other community sites).  This adds to the Spanish, French and English versions already available.  You can switch your language preference in the top-right of the site to filter the content of the www.asp.net site, or link to them directly here:

We also updated the Videos Section on the www.asp.net site with a new index.  If you haven't checked out the videos lately, I'd recommend making a pass through them.  There are about 80+ now on the site, with 1-2 new ones being added each week.  They provide a great way to learn about new features.

Hope this helps,

Scott
Published Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:36 PM by ScottGu
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# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 12:36 AM by vikram
congratulation. What are the other langauge that yuo will be adding to the site

# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:37 AM by ScottGu

Hi Vickram,

We are still figuring out what languages to add next.  The content itself is community driven (people create RSS feeds that we then consume).  So if there is interest for other languages and volunteers to help we'd definitely like to add more.

Thanks,

Scott

# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:49 PM by Marcos
Scott, perhaps you could get the people doing the internationalization of the site to do a write-up. There's really not much out there right now that deals with using databases to store language resources as far as ASP.NET 2.0 is concerned. I've been scouring but can't find too much useful information relating to that. Certain issues arise especially when using Simplified and Traditional Chinese as to how you can reference your resources, fall-back to neutral languages, etc., things you need to consider for a real-world app. Maybe a demo that shows an easy way to get three or four languages quickly into the database. I want to get my life back...

# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:16 PM by Plip

How about British English? ;-)

I think it's great you're pushing localised content.

# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:15 AM by Chirag

This is gr8 news...

# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:21 AM by memo
and how about arabic content section??? there is a huge number for arabic developer around the world and most of thim use Microsoft technologys. so its going to be so great to do somthing like this for thim. dont you think. :)

# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:50 AM by Akbar Z. Behbood
If needed, I will be very happy to help in launching Frasi or any other Middle Eastern sections on www.asp.net !

# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:10 AM by ScottGu

Hi Memo/Akbar,

I think having Arabic and Farsi sections would be really great.  If you might be interested in helping us set these up, please send me email.  Basically all we need are a few volunteers who can help populate the feeds with localized content and we can launch them.

Thanks,

Scott

# re: German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net

Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:16 AM by ScottGu

Hi Marcos,

Here are two links to database based localization samples for ASP.NET 2.0:

http://www.leftslipper.com/ShowFaq.aspx?FaqId=9

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/customsqlserverprovider.asp

Hope this helps,

Scott