I'm using HangFire 1.6 in an asp.net WebApi2 solution with Owin. The server is setup for one culture (da-DK) - I cannot change this. My application must use another culture (en-US) to correctly pa...

What is the best way to parse a float in CSharp? I know about TryParse, but what I'm particularly wondering about is dots, commas etc. I'm having problems with my website. On my dev server, the ',...

I have a unit-test that relies on a specific culture. In FixtureSetup, I set both Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture and Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture to the desired value (en-US). When...

During my tinkering with PS 5.1 related to the objective of question Fully change language for the current PowerShell session I observed a "strange" behavior: > [system.threading.threa...

How to identify the operating system's language using CultureInfo? E.g. if the language in Windows is set to French, I need to identify French and load the fr resource files data.

I am not too familiar with date time. I am currently wonder how can I convert the existing time of the device to a different countries' date/time. E.g. App.CurrentDate <- which display the dev...

I try to implement multicultural application where users able to change language, date format and etc. I wrote core but it returns Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Instance is read-only...

In my case: I have a TextBlock Binding to a property of type DateTime. I want it to be displayed as the Regional settings of the User says. <TextBlock Text="{Binding Date, StringFormat={}{0:d}...

I am able to use Set-Culture (Powershell as Admin) to set the Current Culture to "en-DE" which is English (Germany). However, when I run the different PS commands to view the Current Culture, I am ...

I have a VSTS account within the region of US. And I have a bunch of Unit tests, which run successfully on my local server. But when deployed to the VSTS, all the tests related to the date time are...

I'm trying to get my clients' country, so I use CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. Problem is that when my Canadian customers use my website, they're showing up as American. It looks like CultureInfo.Cur...

I'm using automatic globalization on an ASP MVC website. It works fine until it reached a parallel block: public ActionResult Index() { // Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture is automatically s...

string s = "Gewerbegebiet Waldstraße"; //other possible input "Waldstrasse" int iFoundStart = s.IndexOf("strasse", StringComparison.CurrentCulture); if (iFoundStart > -1) s = s.Remove(iFoundSt...

I'm having some problems in Windows 8 Metro apps (XAML & C#) regarding the user's regional settings. It seems that the apps won't respect user's regional settings, so even if your Windows 8 is ...

Using: Console.WriteLine(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.ToString()); I get "en-US". What should I change in my control panel settings ( Region and Language ? ) to get so...

Well, I am trying to get the default date format of a culture. For example en-us has "m/dd/yyyy" , en-uk 'd/mm/yyyy'. Culture could be anything at the client machine. and Dateformat can also be a...

It strikes me as an odd design choice that the current culture information (CurrentCulture and/or CurrentUICulture) is a a property of the running thread. At the very least it seems like the scope ...

What is the best practice for specifying CurrentCulture or InvariantCulture and not specifying the culture at all? From what I have read, if you're doing serialization, for instance, you need Inv...

From what I have researched it is not possible to change the Timezone of a thread. So my question is why can't you? I would have thought switching your application's culture to a specific country ...

We develop an established software which works fine on all known computers except one. The problem is to parse strings that begin with "8". It seems like "8" in the beginning of a string is a reser...

If I set the CurrentCulture of a thread pool thread, what happens when the thread finishes execution and gets returned back to the thread pool? Does it get its CurrentCulture reset back to the defa...

I almost have the same problem as the guy in this thread: Convert Float that has period instead of comma? So that my double x = 234.4; string y = x.ToString(); I get y == "234,4"; Even worse ...