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A few years ago in one of the companies I worked for, we had an ADO.NET 1.0 application that used MS Access as its database system. We needed to port it to MS SQL Server and so we had to modify the source code. What we did was to write data provider specific code each for MS Access and MS SQL Server, similar to the following sample code. It worked but it was not an elegant solution.

Do you want to use in English but you’re running Japanese Windows OS?  Here’s what you need to do to make display English texts in menus. <SQL Developer installation folder>\ide\bin

In Borland Developer Studio (Delphi 2005), the TRadioGroup component is used to easily create and manage a set of radio buttons on design-time. You can add radio buttons to the TRadioGroup by just opening the object inspector pane and editing the Items property of the TRadioGroup.

I was trying to create a new function for our system using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). The new function was supposed to manipulate the selected cells of a table in a Microsoft Word 2007 document. As I test the function, I came across an inconsistency in the behavior of the Range Object of a Selection.

Keitai ChessToday, I downloaded a Chess game software for my mobile phone.　Unfortunately, there is one defect that I found. (FYI, Chess is not widely played in Japan, though they have this board game called Shogi which is very similar to Chess.)

If you try to install and open the NetBeans IDE in a Japanese environment, you'll get your menus and messages in Japanese. This is true even if you chose English in the Netbeans download page. The reason for this is that Netbeans is multilingual and will start with the locale of your system -- which is usually set to Japanese Locale for people like me who use Japanese Windows OS.