cultureinfo

I'm designing a multilingual application using .resx files. I have a few files like GlobalStrings.resx, GlobalStrings.es.resx, GlobalStrings.en.resx, etc. When I want to use this, I just need to set Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture. The problem: I have a combobox with all the available languages, but I'm loading this manually: comboLanguage.Items.Add(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en")); comboLanguage.Items.Add(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("es")); I've tried with cmbLanguage.Items.AddRange(CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.UserCustomCulture)); without any success. Also tried with all the

I need to store multiple currencies in SQL server. I understand that SQL won't support all different types of currencies (unless I store it as a string, but I don't want to do that). My idea was to convert all the values from their currency format to a standard double and store that instead. Then just re-format based on the culture info when displaying. However, I have tried doing something like e.g. var cultureInfo = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"); double plain = return Double.Parse("$20,000.00", cultureInfo); This doesn't ever seem to work it always throws a FormatException .

I'm wondering if there is a concise and accurate way to pull out the number of decimal places in a decimal value (as an int) that will be safe to use across different culture info? For example: 19.0 should return 1, 27.5999 should return 4, 19.12 should return 2, etc. I wrote a query that did a string split on a period to find decimal places: int priceDecimalPlaces = price.ToString().Split('.').Count() > 1 ? price.ToString().Split('.').ToList().ElementAt(1).Length : 0; But it occurs to me that this will only work in regions that use the '.' as a decimal separator and is therefore very brittle