Global Address/Phone/SSN[Country ID]

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From: Kamaluokeakua (Kamaluokeakua_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/01/04 

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:47:02 -0700

I have to write an application that deals with clients in multiple countries.
 The addresses, phone numbers, country id[social security number] and
currency information has to be stored into a database that allows for the
format of any country. I would like to be able to automatically display the
information in the format of their country based on the information gathered
from the Country field in the database.

Is there any white paper, or book or site that has information on designing
a component that will change it's format automatically so I can customize the
format on the fly instead of having so many different controls based on a
country. Or should I make several different controls and call them based on
the data retrieved from the database? I basically want to display the
address, phone number and SSN/Country ID in the format that is the standard
of the country that it comes from. For example I don't want to force users
to enter a phone number with a mask of (999) 999-9999 if they are in a
country that doesn't have that format. Or force the entry of a SSN when the
country utilizes a different format than 999-99-9999.

The following are the countries:
England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Taiwan,
China [mainland and Hong Kong], Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, France,
Italy, and Japan.

Thank you for any help. 

-- 
Kamaluokeakua

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