Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta

The Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta is an extension to Version 1.0 (version 1.0 is named "Microsoft Visual Studio International Pack 1.0 SR1") and contains a set of controls as well as a set of class libraries designed to help .NET developers create world-ready applications:

l  Yomigana Framework, which contains a class library and controls

n  Class Library:

u  General purpose classes using generics to annotate an enumerated type.

u  Special purpose classes using above generics classes to annotate a string with types.

u  Special purpose StringAnnotation classes using above generics classes to annotate strings with strings. This includes parsing and formatting features.

u  A comparer to collate a list of strings with yomigana aboveannotations.

u  A data structure with IEnumerable <string> which delivers an IEnumerator <string> to divide a string into enumerated string segments.

n  Controls:

u  Enhanced Ajax/WPF/WinForm textboxes to capture Yomi from user key sequences.

u  An enhanced label control for ASP.NET using Ruby tag.

l  Numeric Formatting Library, which provides a class library for formatting numeric data into 5 languages. Arabic support was added in 2.0.

l  Korean Auto Complete Class Library and ComboBox Controls contains WinForm and WPF ComboBox controls that support IME aware auto-completion for Korean as well as a class library, which developers can use to add the IME aware auto-completion feature to standard controls

l  Chinese Auto Complete Class Library and TextBox Controls contains WinForm and WPF TextBox controls that support IME aware autocompletion for Simplified and Traditional Chinese as well as a class library which developers can use to add the IME aware auto-completion feature to standard controls.

l  Chinese Text Alignment Class Library and TextBox Controls contains WinForm and WPF TextBox controls that support text alignment for Chinese as well as a class library, which developers can use to draw strings using the Chinese style text alignment.