What is system.globalization And what's the difference between it and localization

Question

and to spice things a bit , what is the best approach for globalization in Asp.net Mvc App

Answer 1

The System.Globalization namespace contains classes that define culture-related information, including the language, the country/region, the calendars in use, the format patterns for dates, currency, and numbers, and the sort order for strings.

As for what's the difference between it and localization? I guess that can be explained as the difference between a car and a city. One is a destination and the other is how you get there.

I haven't used ASP.NET MVC, but I have used Monorail which is similar. If I wanted to localize a MR app, I would probably use a separate tree of view files. So while, for english-only, I'd have:

\Views\Home\*.asp
\Views\Admin\*.asp
\Views\Products\*.asp

for an internationalized app, I'd have something like:

\en\Views\Home\*.asp
\en\Views\Admin\*.asp
\en\Views\Products\*.asp
\de\Views\Home\*.asp
\de\Views\Admin\*.asp
\de\Views\Products\*.asp
\es\Views\Home\*.asp
\es\Views\Admin\*.asp
\es\Views\Products\*.asp