Get the currency from current culture?

Question

Is there a way to get current information dynamically from the apps culture settings? Basically if the user has set the culture to US I want to know the currency is dollars

Answer 1

Use the RegionInfo.ISOCurrencySymbol property. For example:

  var ri = new RegionInfo(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.LCID);
  Console.WriteLine(ri.ISOCurrencySymbol);

Output: "USD"

Answer 2

string isoCurrencySymbol = RegionInfo.CurrentRegion.ISOCurrencySymbol;