System.Globalization Namespace

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The System.Globalization namespace contains classes and an enumeration that define culture-related information. These types are useful for writing globalized (internationalized) applications.

Classes

Name Description
Public Class CultureInfo Provides information about a specific culture (such as its name, its writing system, and so forth), as well as access to culture-specific objects that provide information for common operations, such as formatting dates and sorting strings.
Public Class DateTimeFormatInfo Defines how DateTime values are formatted and displayed, depending on the culture.
Public Class DaylightTime Defines the period of daylight saving time for the local time zone.
Public Class NumberFormatInfo Defines how numeric values are formatted and displayed, depending on the system culture.

Enumerations

Name Description
Public Enumeration CultureTypes Defines the types of culture lists that you can retrieve by using the GetCultures method.