Setting the Current Culture
Two main properties of the Page class have an effect on localization:
• UICulture
• Culture
The UICulture property specifies which resource files are loaded for the page. The resource files can contain all the text content of your pages translated into a particular language. You can set this property to any standard culture name. This property is discussed in detail during the discussion of using local and global resources later in this chapter.
The Culture property, on the other hand, determines how strings such as dates, numerals, and currency amounts are formatted. It also determines how values are compared and sorted. For example, by modifying the Culture property, you can display dates with language-specific ...
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