Last month I announced the alpha of NCLDR. Since then there have been a few updates to improve the overall NCLDR experience. The current release is 0.0.0.7-Alpha and this blog post lists the changes since version 0.0.0.1-Alpha.

Features

• Added support for genitive month names
• Added IndexExemplarCharacters property to the Characters class
• Added NCldrBinaryFileDataSource to replace NCldrLoader (NCldrLoader exists for backwards compatibility for a few releases). In addition static members have been changed to instance members. Save and Exists methods have been added together with an NCldrDataFilename property.
• Added new INCldrFileDataSource implementations (NCldrJsonFileDataSource and NCldrXmlFileDataSource) to allow the NCLDR data file to be saved as JSON or XML as an alternative to the binary format
• Added support for CLDR release 23 (keeping backwards compatibility with release 22.1)
• Added new TimeData and RegionHour types and corresponding properties to support the new TimeData type in CLDR release 23
• Added CashRounding to CurrencyFraction inline with CLDR Release 23
• The Calendar.CalendarDisplayNames property has been removed and replaced
  with Dates.CalendarDisplayNames to coincide with the corresponding change in CLDR release 23
• Various refactorings to allow NCLDR to be compiled for Windows Phone (replacement of Hashtables with Lists, use of compatible string.Compare overload)
• Added IsDataLoaded property to NCldr class
• Changed TextBoxes in NCldrExplorer to be Right To Left when showing RTL data
• Added support for CLDR Layout (including Orientation, Right-To-Left)
• Removed hardwired reference to Core in CLDR path (if you have downloaded to a folder called Core you will now need to include this in your path)
• Added a checkbox to NCldrBuilderGui to allow CalendarPreferences to be set
• Added a FolderBrowserDialog to NCldrBuilderGui to allow path to be set easily
• Removed the CultureInfo GetCurrency and GetCurrencyPeriod extension methods as their functionality is available through the GetNumbers extension method
• Added GetCasing, GetCurrencyPeriods, GetDelimiters, GetLayout, GetListPatterns,
  GetNumbers, GetUnitPatternSets, GetRuleBasedNumberFormatting, GetGenderList, GetLikelySubTag, GetRegionInformation, GetYes, GetYesShort, GetNo, GetNoShort extension methods to CultureInfo
• Added GetRegionInformation extension method to RegionInfo
• Added a -DisplayMode parameter to NCldrBuilderCmd which supports Verbose and Diagnostics options

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in Calendars ShortestDayNames and ShortestMonthNames properties where the properties always returned null
• Fixed a bug in NCldrCustomCulture to allow NCLDR to be used with seed cultures
• Fixed a bug in NCldrExplorer when the NCLDR data was not loaded and the tab changed then an exception would be thrown
• Fixed a bug in NCldrBuilderGui where CalendarPreferences was not being saved/loaded
• Fixed a bug in NCldrBuilderGui where IncludeCultures and ExcludeCultures were not being loaded
• Ensured that zero element arrays are not written to NCLDR.dat
• Fixed a bug where the culture identifiers in LikelySubTags were being stored as CLDR identifiers instead of NCLDR identifiers
• Fixed a bug where extension methods didn't work with the Invariant culture
• Fixed a bug in RegionInfo extension methods where the region was incorrectly being identified by its name instead of its two letter ISO name