Updated: September 2011
Gets the CultureInfo that represents the culture used by the current thread.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Public Shared ReadOnly Property CurrentCulture As CultureInfopublic static CultureInfo CurrentCulture { get; }public:
static property CultureInfo^ CurrentCulture {
CultureInfo^ get ();
}static member CurrentCulture : CultureInfo
Property Value
Type: System.GlobalizationThe CultureInfo that represents the culture used by the current thread.
The culture is a property of the executing thread. This read-only property is equivalent to retrieving the CultureInfo object returned by the Thread
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The CurrentCulture property is used for formatting and other globalization tasks. In contrast, the CurrentUICulture property can be set to neutral cultures that may not have formatting information. |
Note that if you set a specific culture that is different from the system-installed culture or the user's preferred culture, and your application starts multiple threads, the current culture of those threads will be the culture returned by the GetUserDefaultLocaleName function.
The following code example demonstrates how to change the CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture of the current thread.
Imports System
Imports System.Globalization
Imports System.Security.Permissions
Imports System.Threading
<assembly: SecurityPermission(SecurityAction.RequestMinimum, ControlThread := True)>
Public Class SamplesCultureInfo
Public Shared Sub Main()
' Displays the name of the CurrentCulture of the current thread.
Console.WriteLine("CurrentCulture is {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name)
' Changes the CurrentCulture of the current thread to th-TH.
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New CultureInfo("th-TH", False)
Console.WriteLine("CurrentCulture is now {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name)
' Displays the name of the CurrentUICulture of the current thread.
Console.WriteLine("CurrentUICulture is {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name)
' Changes the CurrentUICulture of the current thread to ja-JP.
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo("ja-JP", False)
Console.WriteLine("CurrentUICulture is now {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name)
End Sub 'Main
End Class 'SamplesCultureInfo
'This code produces the following output, if the ControlThread permission is granted (for example, if this code is run from the local drive).
'
'CurrentCulture is en-US.
'CurrentCulture is now th-TH.
'CurrentUICulture is en-US.
'CurrentUICulture is now ja-JP.
using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Security.Permissions;
using System.Threading;
[assembly:SecurityPermission( SecurityAction.RequestMinimum, ControlThread = true )]
public class SamplesCultureInfo {
public static void Main() {
// Displays the name of the CurrentCulture of the current thread.
Console.WriteLine( "CurrentCulture is {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name );
// Changes the CurrentCulture of the current thread to th-TH.
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo( "th-TH", false );
Console.WriteLine( "CurrentCulture is now {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name );
// Displays the name of the CurrentUICulture of the current thread.
Console.WriteLine( "CurrentUICulture is {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name );
// Changes the CurrentUICulture of the current thread to ja-JP.
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo( "ja-JP", false );
Console.WriteLine( "CurrentUICulture is now {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name );
}
}
/*
This code produces the following output, if the ControlThread permission is granted (for example, if this code is run from the local drive).
CurrentCulture is en-US.
CurrentCulture is now th-TH.
CurrentUICulture is en-US.
CurrentUICulture is now ja-JP.
*/
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Globalization;
using namespace System::Security::Permissions;
using namespace System::Threading;
[assembly:SecurityPermission(SecurityAction::RequestMinimum,ControlThread=true)];
int main()
{
// Displays the name of the CurrentCulture of the current thread.
Console::WriteLine( "CurrentCulture is {0}.", CultureInfo::CurrentCulture->Name );
// Changes the CurrentCulture of the current thread to th-TH.
Thread::CurrentThread->CurrentCulture = gcnew CultureInfo( "th-TH",false );
Console::WriteLine( "CurrentCulture is now {0}.", CultureInfo::CurrentCulture->Name );
// Displays the name of the CurrentUICulture of the current thread.
Console::WriteLine( "CurrentUICulture is {0}.", CultureInfo::CurrentCulture->Name );
// Changes the CurrentUICulture of the current thread to ja-JP.
Thread::CurrentThread->CurrentUICulture = gcnew CultureInfo( "ja-JP",false );
Console::WriteLine( "CurrentUICulture is now {0}.", CultureInfo::CurrentCulture->Name );
}
/*
This code produces the following output, if the ControlThread permission is granted (for example, if this code is run from the local drive).
CurrentCulture is en-US.
CurrentCulture is now th-TH.
CurrentUICulture is en-US.
CurrentUICulture is now ja-JP.
*/
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