How to: Get Culture Information

2006-12-13

This topic contains code examples for accessing culture information and making your application compatible for global use.

To get the current locale setting for the device

Create an instance of CultureInfo for the executing assembly.

Example

Private Sub GetCultureInformation()
    Dim asm As Assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
    Dim ci As CultureInfo = asm.GetName().CultureInfo
    MsgBox(ci.EnglishName)
End Sub

private void GetCultureInformation()
{
    Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
    CultureInfo ci = asm.GetName().CultureInfo;
    MessageBox.Show(ci.EnglishName);
}

Compiling the Code

This example requires references to System and the following namespaces:

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