cultureinfo

I have a curiosity related to culture change in MVC. I tried in 2 ways, but apparently I was wrong somewhere. In my Web.config I have : <globalization uiCulture="auto" culture="auto" /> This is how I tried to change the thread culture : <li>@Html.ActionLink("Eng", "ChangeCulture", "Home", new { lang="en-US"}, new { @class = "languageSelectorEnglish" })</li> First method I have the following controller : public void ChangeCulture(string lang) { Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(lang); Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(lang);

What is the best practice for specifying CurrentCulture or InvariantCulture and not specifying the culture at all? From what I have read, if you're doing serialization, for instance, you need InvariantCulture as a means of specifying a canonical representation of a data value. That's a relatively small percentage of culture-based string manipulations. I find it long, verbose, and ugly most of the time to specify it every time I do, say: var greeting = string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "Hello ", userName); However, my team recently turned FxCop on and now there's a push to always use

What is best practice for the scenario listed below? We have an application which we would like to support multiple currencies. The software will respect the users locale and regional settings to dictate the correct number format, i.e. $10,000.00 or 10.000,00₴ etc. We would however like to be able to format different numbers based upon a currency ID (perhaps the three letter ISO4217 code). Our idea is to store a table in the database with each currency and then request from the user to select the currency symbol which will be used. The program will then format all numbers based upon the locale

Last night we migrated our web services tier from physical Windows 2008 r2 to virtual Windows 2012. We are getting tons of events on ours logs about DateTime's invalid formats, strange as we double checked our regional settings. Long story short: CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("es-MX").DateTimeFormat.AbbreviatedMonthNames Outputs (using LinqPad5): ene. feb. mar. on our new 2012 env while on 2008 ouptus: ene feb mar Our parsing is something like this: DateTime.Parse("18 ene 16",CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("es-MX")) And while it worked wonders now it throws FormatException : The string was not

I've an application where we use Tasks. We also modified the cultureInfo(we use the EN-US language, but keep the date/number format), and we use .Net 4.0. The application has a lot of thread and task, and we have a factory for the creation of Task/Threads. For the thread, we have the following code, to ensure that every thread is launched with the correct CurrentCulture: //This is basically only the constructor, but it describe well how we create the Thread: public MonitoredThread(ThreadStart threadStart, string name, bool isBackground = false) { m_threadStart = threadStart; m_name = name; m

I am using this standard code for populating list of countries: static void Main(string[] args) { List cultureList = new List(); CultureInfo[] cultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures & ~CultureTypes.NeutralCultures); foreach (CultureInfo culture in cultures) { try { RegionInfo region = new RegionInfo(culture.LCID); if (!(cultureList.Contains(region.EnglishName))) { cultureList.Add(region.EnglishName); Console.WriteLine(region.EnglishName); } } catch (ArgumentException ex) { // just ignore this continue; } } } I saw that some countries are missed. Just wondered what's the