Execute task with the CurrentCulture set to the Task creator CurrentCulture

Question

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.

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Answer 1

Im not sure you really need a MonitoredTask for this. You can capture the custom culture using closure:

public static Task ExecuteTask(Action action, string name)
{
   var customCulture = CustomCultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
   return Task.Factory.StartNew(() => 
   {
       // use customCulture variable as needed
      // inside the generated task.
   });
}

Another way of doing this would be to pass the current culture as object state using the proper overload (either Action