Prevent exception messages from being translated into the user's language?

Question

How do I make my application always use English when displaying win32/.net exceptions messages?

I got this message, it looks like someone used babelfish to translate

Answer 1

If it's an ASP.NET application, you can set the UI language in web.config (*):

For other applications, the current user's regional settings are used by default, and you have to explicitly override it - e.g. Thread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("en-US").

(*) caveat - if an error in the config file results in an exception being thrown before the element is processed, you'll get the default uiCulture.