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    Globalization at Work

    Globalization settings can affect an application in a variety of ways. When CultureInfo is used with the correct format statements, information such as numbers, dates, and times can be easily formatted for a specific culture.

    Try It Yourself: Globalizing an Application

    To modify the application from the previous exercise to show the different culture settings for the current culture and for the Spain-Spanish culture, follow these steps. If you closed Visual Studio, repeat the previous exercise first.

    1. Modify the application to support landscape orientation. Open MainPage.xaml and change the line reading SupportedOrientations="Portrait" to SupportedOrientations="PortraitOrLandscape".

    2. Modify the ContentPanel grid by replacing it with the following XAML:


      

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