Deployment

[RSM]

Hello,

We are developing a .NET application for deployment in
26 languages and we are wrestling with some deployment
concepts. We plan to issue a prerequisites CD that a user
will update his system with, prior to installing our
software. Since IE 5.01 and MDAC 2.7 are prerequisites,
it would appear that we must also deploy these in all
languages as well. Since all languages of the
prerequisites will not fit on a single CD, our only choice
would be to distrubute multiple CD's with localized
versions of the prerequisites. Are there any other ways
to do this ( such as a language pack or something) that
would allow us to produce one CD for ditribution to all
countries?

[Felix Wang]

RE: Deployment

Hi,

Thanks for posting. I am not aware of any language packs for IE or MDAC.

In addition, we only have 24 languages for IE and MDAC:

Arabic, Chinese(Simplif ied), Chinese(Traditi onal), Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian,Itali an,
Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese(Braz il),
Portuguese(Port ugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

I think it would be best if we can ask the users to install IE and MDAC by
themselves. IE 5.01 and MDAC 2.7 (or above) are common nowadays on Windows
platforms. In fact, IE 5.01 or above is a requirement to install .Net
Framework (both 1.0 and 1.1) and we do not need to worry too much about IE.
MDAC is about 5 MB.

I hope these make sense to you.

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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[RSM]

RE: Deployment

Thank you for your response.

Does Microsoft have a "language map" of some type to
indicate which versions of .NET should be installed in
various countries/language groups? For example, if I want
to deploy a .NET application in Arabic, I can get IE and
MDAC in this language, but no .NET framework. Or in
another example, IE,.NET, and MDAC are available in Czech,
but I cannot get MSDE in Czech.

1) So is theew a doument that reccommends a language for
these components that would be used to fill in the blanks?

2) Does microsoft have plans to make these and other
languages available for the core packages (MSDE, MDAC, IE,
and .NET)?

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>English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,[/color]
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>MDAC is about 5 MB.
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>I hope these make sense to you.
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>Regards,
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>Felix Wang
>Microsoft Online Partner Support
>Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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[Felix Wang]

RE: Deployment

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback.

It is true that we don't have .Net Framework in Arabic and MSDE in Czech.
Generaly speaking, the English version should work under all situations.
Other than English and the default language, it is not recommended to
install a substitute language version, especially for non-unicode programs.

As far as the second question is concerned, it is quite difficult to say. I
would answer "yes", but I would not be able to give you a definite date
when the plan will be implemented. I understand your concerns and hope we
will have other localized versions of these products soon.

Regards,

Felix Wang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.