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Enterprise Library Test Guide
A tool that may help you prepare your code for globalization testing is Strgen. Strgen
is a multilingual text generator tool that generates multi-lingual strings. The tool can
be downloaded from Multilingual Text Generator – STRGEN on Microsoft.com.
Note: Strgen is distributed “as-is,” with no obligations or technical support from Microsoft
Corporation.
Creating a Test Plan
The test plan is made up of the test cases that determine whether the application
blocks adhere to globalization best practices. Table 1 lists the test cases for the
Enterprise Library application blocks.
Table 1: Test Plan for Enterprise Library Application Blocks
Test case
Verify that the application block converts
strings to Unicode characters
from the managed format (Unicode)
used within the application blocks.
Verify that any text that the application
block sends to external
resources, such as a file, a database,
a message queue, and e-mail,
are Unicode characters with UTF-8
encoding.
Verify that application blocks that
use public APIs can accept culture-specific
information such as
addresses, currency, dates, and
numerals. In addition, verify that the
output is displayed in the appropriate,
culture-specific format.
Example
In the following example, the platform uses the .NET
Framework CharSet.Unicode attribute to marshal strings
as Unicode characters.
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet =CharSet.
Unicode)]
public static extern IntPtr
GetModuleHandle(string moduleName);
In the following example, messages that the application
block sends in e-mail are set to UTF-8 encoding.
MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
message.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
In the following example, the application block first converts
a date and time that are in local time to universal
time before processing them. It then converts them back
to local time before displaying them.
// Converts the local time to universal
// time before processing it.
System.DateTime univDateTime = localTime.ToUniversalTime();
// Do the processing using universal time.
// Convert the universal time back to local
// time to display it.
System localTime = univTime.ToLocalTime();