MS Test agent threads not picking up system culture

Question

It seems that the agent threads spawned by MS Test when running the tests do not have their current culture set to the current system culture.

More specifically, the Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture property always returns the "en-US" culture, even if i set my Windows culture to a different one, such as German or French.

This only seems to happen when running the tests, because if i run that code normally, the culture is set to the correct one.

Is this an actual feature of MS Test? As far as i know all threads in .NET have by default the current system culture associated to them, is MS Test somehow always forcing it to "en-US"?

Answer 1

Actually i found the culprit, it's not MS Test, it's Specflow - there's a known issue reported some time ago but still not fixed. My tests were using Specflow, which in turn uses MS Test.