CurrentCulture incorrectly defaulting to en-US in ASP.net

Question

I have just migrated around 100 ASP.net sites from IIS 6 on Windows Sever 2003 to IIS 7 on Windows 2008. I\'ve just noticed that various pieces of code that use things like

Answer 1

.Net web application is picking up your browser's default culture. For e.g. in FF, default language is set as shown in below image.

So, if you want your site's culture other than the one from browser, in page's InitializeCulture method (Create a BasePage and keep below code here and inherit existing pages from this BasePage).

protected override void InitializeCulture()
    {
            System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-GB");
        System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture;

            base.InitializeCulture();
        }
    }