More and more, single SharePoint applications are being exposed to international audiences, both on the Internet and the intranets of the world – and clients only want to pay once. We will dive into how localization works in SharePoint in markup, in code-behind, and in CAML. We will also look at the pros and cons of variations in 2007, and how they have been improved for 2010

1. Hello!

2. Localizing SharePoint Adding Multi-language Support to Your Site

3. Who are you?

4. Greg Hurlman: Avanade Group Manager SharePoint Architect Developer Father Hokie Gamer World Famous Jungle Cruise Skipper (ret.)

5. Making life easy through localization

6. Language Packs: Mystery of the MS Download Center

8. Don’t forget WSS!

9. Don’t forget WSS patches!

10. Going to have to run the Config Wizard at least 4 times (It’ll take a while)

11. Demo!

12. Variations

13. Variations

14. Not everything varies Yes: Publishing Content No: Page Layouts (all Site Collection-level stuff) Permissions List Changes (mostly) Web Part List References Pretty much everything else

16. Automatic user redirection

18. On with the code

20. No more magic strings

22. Stay neutral

23. One .resx per locale

26. In XML, just drop it in

27. In markup, surround it with <% %>

29. What else is new?

31. Timer Jobs

32. Content Propagation

34. Questions?

35. Photo Credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/photojonny/2268845904/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/magdalar/2950663799 http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelsk/4176291456 http://www.flickr.com/photos/caharley72/4343295169 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bestrated1/341866875 http://www.flickr.com/photos/gilderic/4240700822 http://www.flickr.com/photos/damaradeaella/2822846819/

37. You can find me at:

38. Blog: http://greghurlman.com

39. Twitter: @ghurlman

40. FB: http://facebook.com/greg.hurlman

41. Email: greg@greghurlman.com

42. Princeton Area SharePoint User Group

43. SharePoint Saturday New York