Mind your language – Silverlight – The missing notes

I’m starting a series of posts on important information that is available scattered over blogs and forums that are critical to Silverlight developers.

The first one is called “Mind your [I8N] language“.

Always add the following line into your root visual’s constructor. It ensures that dates and currency formats display correctly on DataGrids (particularly in non-US countries.

       public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.Language = XmlLanguage.GetLanguage(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name);
        }

1. Mind Your I8N Language Silverlight
2. Do not publish Silverlight xaps to ClientBin
3. Creating Collections in XAML
4. Speed up your environment [VS2010]

Silverlight – How-to-guides for busy developers

1. Binding combobox itemsources inside templates
2. Binding combobox where null is a valid selection
3. QueryString helpers in Silverlight Navigation applications
4. Rotating a Silverlight visual tree for landscape printing