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 CurrentCulture Property

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Thread..::.CurrentCulture Property

Gets or sets the culture for the current thread.

Namespace:  System.Threading
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Property CurrentCulture As CultureInfo
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As Thread
Dim value As CultureInfo

value = instance.CurrentCulture

instance.CurrentCulture = value
C#
public CultureInfo CurrentCulture { get; set; }
Visual C++
public:
property CultureInfo^ CurrentCulture {
    CultureInfo^ get ();
    void set (CultureInfo^ value);
}
JScript
public function get CurrentCulture () : CultureInfo
public function set CurrentCulture (value : CultureInfo)

Property Value

Type: System.Globalization..::.CultureInfo
A CultureInfo representing the culture for the current thread.
ExceptionCondition
NotSupportedException

The property is set to a neutral culture. Neutral cultures cannot be used in formatting and parsing and therefore cannot be set as the thread's current culture.

ArgumentNullException

The property is set to nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

The following code example shows the threading statement that allows the user interface of a Windows Forms to display in the culture that is set in Control Panel. Additional code is needed.

Visual Basic
' Compile with option t:winexe /r:System.dll,System.Windows.Forms.dll.

Option Explicit
Option Strict

Imports System
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Windows.Forms

Public Class UICulture
    Inherits Form

    Sub New()

        ' Set the user interface to display in the
        ' same culture as that set in Control Panel.
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = _
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture

        ' Add additional code.
    End Sub

    <STAThreadAttribute> Shared Sub Main()
        Application.Run(New UICulture())
    End Sub

End Class

C#
// Compile with option /t:winexe.

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows.Forms;

class UICulture : Form
{
    public UICulture()
    {
        // Set the user interface to display in the
        // same culture as that set in Control Panel.
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = 
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;

        // Add additional code.
    }

    [STAThreadAttribute]
    static void Main()
    {
        Application.Run(new UICulture());
    }
}

Visual C++
#using <system.dll>
#using <System.Drawing.dll>
#using <system.windows.forms.dll>

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Threading;
using namespace System::Windows::Forms;
ref class UICulture: public Form
{
public:
   UICulture()
   {

      // Set the user interface to display in the
      // same culture as that set in Control Panel.
      Thread::CurrentThread->CurrentUICulture = Thread::CurrentThread->CurrentCulture;

      // Add additional code.
   }

};


[STAThreadAttribute]
int main()
{
   Application::Run( gcnew UICulture );
}


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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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