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Culture is the combination of language and peculiarities of geographical location (like en-UK, en-US, de-AT, de-DE, fr-BE)

Culture is the combination of language and peculiarities of geographical location (like en-GB, en-US, de-AT, de-DE, fr-BE)

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How to have website think you're visiting from a different country?

I can test cultures well enough e.g. es-US or fr-CA but the .NET framework has a built in class called System.Globalization.CultureInfo which I believe is returning wrong values as I'm visiting from a US address. Is there a way to fake the headers…
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Displaying a weekday name in VB

Good morning, I am using a calendar form control to grab user selected dates and date ranges. On a calendar click event I refresh my form to show the user the selected start and end dates. As part of the refresh, I update a text field to show the…
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How to read from a resx file in the App_LocalResources folder using a specific culture?

To read a resource for a default culture I'd do this: object obj = GetLocalResourceObject("MyTextResourceID.Text"); But what I need is to do the same but to be able to specify a culture for the resource. So I tried…
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Override culture when using GetGlobalResourceObject or GetLocalResourceObject in ASP.NET

I've implemented localization in this ASP.NET project using resource files and that's working as expected. But there is one situation where I have to display the whole page in one language and then a section of it in some other language based on the…
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Linq select based on culture

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question but if I want to return column depending on culture, what would the best way be? I've thought of having if elses in the linq select statement or making an extension: Say I use code first with linq and have a…
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Setting cultureinfo does not give correct strings from local resource files

I have a website with a page called buystuff.aspx. I've created two local resources: buystuff.aspx.resx and buystuff.aspx.da-dk.resx. This works fine, and if I enter the site with a da-DK setting, I get that version, and if I enter with anything…
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System Culture in a SIlverlight Application

I can't figure out how to get the CultureInfo of the Installed System on the Client Machine. There is the CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture Property, but it seems to be unavailable in Silverlight. Regards Jonny
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How do I set a custom culture before the page is rendered?

I have created a custom culture for client-specific language, i.e. I have resx files for that culture. The issue I have is that I can't seem to set the culture early enough in the page cycle. By the time I call Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture…
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format currency in specific way for only one culture

I am working on a multi lingual application that shows product prices in different currencies. I use the .net library to format currencies based upon culture eg. CultureInfo current = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture; return…
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How to get all Cultures to avoid CultureNotFoundException

Guys I'm developing an application that will run across multiple machines. I've recently introduced Cultures in it to support all currencies. I have 2 main development PCs and I move code between them. One is a Windows 8 laptop, while the other is a…
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How to do currency-based number validation?

I have a Winforms Application, in which I have a Combo Box, and a text box. Combo box has Currency symbols as follows: USD GBP CAD AUD JPY EUR ISK PLZ TRL etc .. The user first selects one currency symbol from the above, and then types in a value…
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change profile language

Web.config Default.aspx.cs protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { Profile.Language = "fr"; string strCultur =…
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DateTime format according to the culture in MVC

I have an MVC view where I list a dateTime type column named "CreatedOn", the values are formatted like this: 'DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS', When I click on edit link to modify a value I obtain the same format, When I modify the edited value I get the…
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WinRT - How To Get the correct DateTimeFormatter based on the user culture

I've some trouble finding the right DateTimeFormatter for the user. When converting a date to a string for example with .ToString("D"); always the en-US culture is used in WinRT. I found out that there are new globalization apis which should be…
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.NET global culture on a new server

We've just moved to a new server and everything's being going well. However earlier I ran into a .NET error when it was trying to convert a string in the format "dd/mm/yyyy" to a date, now I changed the culture setting in the local web.config but we…
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