Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Defining the culture for an application domain

With .NET 4.5, we have in our hands a way of specifying the default culture for all of our application threads in a quick and efficient way.

How to do it...

We will now define the default culture for our application domain as follows:

1. Create a new Visual Studio project of type Console Application named caCultureAppDomain.
2. Open the Program.cs file and add the using clause for globalization:

   using System.Globalization;

3. Next, add the following methods:

   static void DefineAppDomainCulture() { String CultureString = "en-US"; DisplayCulture(); CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(CultureString); CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(CultureString); ...