Default language

The Default Language value determines the culture-specific lookup of resource data, such as text strings.  The Default Language value indicates the language file to load at application run-time containing user interface strings.  The Format value determines everything else, such as date formatting and number formatting.

The text strings themselves are located in a RESX resource file created by Iron Speed Designer for your application.  Complete details on how to modify the resource text strings is in “Error and Validation Message Strings” section of the “Localizing (Internationalizing) Your Application”.

Iron Speed provides standard English language string resource files.  As a courtesy to developers, resource files for other languages from third-party providers may be included with Iron Speed Designer.  While Iron Speed doesn’t provide support for these additional language files, we hope you’ll find them useful if your particular language is among those provided.

Multi-lingual application

If selected, your application will be created with multiple language translation files (RESX resource files) included in your application.  Choose the language translations to include in the Select Languages dialog.

Text direction

Depending on the direction  you select, Iron Speed Designer automatically switches the text direction displayed in pages created in Iron Speed Designer.  This change is applied to pages using the page style designated in the Page Style step of Application Wizard.

Format

The culture encoding for your application.  The culture encoding format determines many aspects of your generated .NET application, including currency, date, and number format.  Your application uses these settings at run-time to determine proper operation.