How to: Specify a Culture in Text Templates

The culture directive lets you specify the culture that you want to use for text templates. The format used is ISO-3166, for example en-US for United States English. For more information, see Directive Syntax (Domain-Specific Languages) and Using the CultureInfo Class.

Procedure

To specify a culture for generating an output string

• Add the following directive to the template.

  In this example, the French culture is specified.

  <#@ template culture="fr-FR" #>
  

  Note

  If you already have a template directive, add the culture parameter to the end of your existing directive.

Example

The following example converts 32.45 to the French culture using the "fr-FR" value. The example replaces the decimal point with a comma to produce the following output.

I have 32,45 Francs in my wallet.

<#@ template culture="fr-FR" #>
<#@ output extension=".txt" #>
<#
    double moneyInMyWallet = 32.45;
#>
I have <#= moneyInMyWallet #> Francs in my wallet.

<#@ template culture="fr-FR" #>
<#@ output extension=".txt" #>
<#
    Dim moneyInMyWallet as Double = 32.45
#>
I have <#= moneyInMyWallet #> Francs in my wallet.

See Also

Tasks

Walkthrough: Creating and Running Text Templates

Other Resources

Using Built-in Directives in Text Templates

Adding Code to Text Templates

Generating Artifacts By Using Text Templates

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