Practicing and exploring
Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring the topics in this chapter with deeper research.
Exercise 7.1 – Test your knowledge
Use the web to answer the following questions:
- What is the difference between localization, globalization, and internationalization?
- What is the smallest measurement of time available in .NET?
- How long is a “tick” in .NET?
- In what scenario might you use a
DateOnlyvalue instead of aDateTimevalue? - For a time zone, what does its
BaseUtcOffsetproperty tell you? - How can you get information about the local time zone in which your code executes?
- For a
DateTimevalue, what does itsKindproperty tell you? - How can you control the current culture for your executing code?
- What is the ISO culture code for Welsh?
- How do localization resource file fallbacks work?
