CultureTypes Enumeration

Defines the types of culture lists that can be retrieved using CultureInfo.GetCultures.

This enumeration has a FlagsAttribute attribute that allows a bitwise combination of its member values.

Namespace: System.Globalization
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

'Declaration
<SerializableAttribute> _
<ComVisibleAttribute(True)> _
<FlagsAttribute> _
Public Enumeration CultureTypes
'Usage
Dim instance As CultureTypes

/** @attribute SerializableAttribute() */ 
/** @attribute ComVisibleAttribute(true) */ 
/** @attribute FlagsAttribute() */ 
public enum CultureTypes
SerializableAttribute 
ComVisibleAttribute(true) 
FlagsAttribute 
public enum CultureTypes

 Member nameDescription
Supported by the .NET Compact FrameworkAllCulturesAll cultures that ship with the .NET Framework, including neutral and specific cultures, cultures installed in the Windows operating system, and custom cultures created by the user. 
FrameworkCulturesNeutral and specific cultures shipped with the .NET Framework. 
Supported by the .NET Compact FrameworkInstalledWin32CulturesAll cultures that are installed in the Windows operating system. Note that not all cultures supported by the .NET Framework are installed in the operating system. 
Supported by the .NET Compact FrameworkNeutralCulturesCultures that are associated with a language but are not specific to a country/region. The names of .NET Framework cultures consist of the lowercase two-letter code derived from ISO 639-1. For example: "en" (English) is a neutral culture.  

Custom cultures can have any user-specified name, not just a two-letter code.

The invariant culture is included in the array of cultures returned by the CultureInfo.GetCultures method that specifies this value.

ReplacementCulturesCustom cultures created by the user that replace cultures shipped with the .NET Framework. 
Supported by the .NET Compact FrameworkSpecificCulturesCultures that are specific to a country/region. The names of these cultures follow RFC 4646 (Windows Vista and later). The format is "<languagecode2>-<country/regioncode2>", where <languagecode2> is a lowercase two-letter code derived from ISO 639-1 and <country/regioncode2> is an uppercase two-letter code derived from ISO 3166. For example, "en-US" for English (United States) is a specific culture. 

Custom cultures can have any user-specified name, not just a standard-compliant name.

UserCustomCultureCustom cultures created by the user. 
WindowsOnlyCulturesCultures installed in the Windows operating system but not the .NET Framework. 

The WindowsOnlyCultures value is mutually exclusive with the FrameworkCultures value.

These culture type values are returned by the CultureInfo.CultureTypes property, and also serve as a filter that limits the cultures returned by the CultureInfo.GetCultures method.

For more information on cultures, see CultureInfo.

The following code example demonstrates the CultureTypes enumeration and the CultureTypes property.

' This example demonstrates the CultureTypes enumeration 
' and the CultureInfo.CultureTypes property.

Imports System
Imports System.Globalization

Class Sample
    Public Shared Sub Main() 
        ' Create a table of most culture types. 
        Dim mostCultureTypes() As CultureTypes = { _
                CultureTypes.NeutralCultures, _
                CultureTypes.SpecificCultures, _
                CultureTypes.InstalledWin32Cultures, _
                CultureTypes.UserCustomCulture, _
                CultureTypes.ReplacementCultures, _
                CultureTypes.FrameworkCultures, _
                CultureTypes.WindowsOnlyCultures }
        Dim allCultures() As CultureInfo
        Dim combo As CultureTypes
        
        ' Get and enumerate all cultures.
        allCultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures)
        Dim ci As CultureInfo
        For Each ci In  allCultures
            ' Display the name of each culture.
            Console.WriteLine("Culture: {0}", ci.Name)
            
            ' Get the culture types of each culture. 
            combo = ci.CultureTypes
            
            ' Display the name of each culture type flag that is set.
            Console.Write("  ")
            Dim ct As CultureTypes
            For Each ct In  mostCultureTypes
                If 0 <> (ct And combo) Then
                    Console.Write("{0} ", ct)
                End If
            Next ct
            Console.WriteLine()
        Next ci
    End Sub 'Main
End Class 'Sample

'The following is a portion of the results produced by this code example.
'.
'.
'.
'Culture: syr
'  NeutralCultures FrameworkCultures
'Culture: dv
'  NeutralCultures FrameworkCultures
'Culture:
'  SpecificCultures FrameworkCultures
'Culture: ar-SA
'  SpecificCultures FrameworkCultures
'Culture: bg-BG
'  SpecificCultures InstalledWin32Cultures FrameworkCultures
'Culture: ca-ES
'  SpecificCultures InstalledWin32Cultures FrameworkCultures
'Culture: zh-TW
'  SpecificCultures FrameworkCultures
'.
'.
'.

The following code example displays several properties of the neutral cultures.

Imports System
Imports System.Globalization

Public Class SamplesCultureInfo

   Public Shared Sub Main()

      ' Displays several properties of the neutral cultures.
      Console.WriteLine("CULTURE ISO ISO WIN DISPLAYNAME                              ENGLISHNAME")
      Dim ci As CultureInfo
      For Each ci In  CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.NeutralCultures)
         Console.Write("{0,-7}", ci.Name)
         Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.TwoLetterISOLanguageName)
         Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.ThreeLetterISOLanguageName)
         Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName)
         Console.Write(" {0,-40}", ci.DisplayName)
         Console.WriteLine(" {0,-40}", ci.EnglishName)
      Next ci

   End Sub 'Main 

End Class 'SamplesCultureInfo


'This code produces the following output.  This output has been cropped for brevity.
'
'CULTURE ISO ISO WIN DISPLAYNAME                              ENGLISHNAME
'ar      ar  ara ARA Arabic                                   Arabic
'bg      bg  bul BGR Bulgarian                                Bulgarian
'ca      ca  cat CAT Catalan                                  Catalan
'zh-Hans zh  zho CHS Chinese (Simplified)                     Chinese (Simplified)
'zh-Hant zh  zho CHT Chinese (Traditional)                    Chinese (Traditional)
'cs      cs  ces CSY Czech                                    Czech
'da      da  dan DAN Danish                                   Danish
'de      de  deu DEU German                                   German
'el      el  ell ELL Greek                                    Greek
'en      en  eng ENU English                                  English
'es      es  spa ESP Spanish                                  Spanish
'fi      fi  fin FIN Finnish                                  Finnish


import System.* ;
import System.Globalization.* ;

public class SamplesCultureInfo
{
     public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        // Displays several properties of the neutral cultures.
        Console.WriteLine("CULTURE ISO ISO WIN DISPLAYNAME                  " 
            + "            ENGLISHNAME");
        
        for (int iCtr = 0; 
            iCtr < (CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.NeutralCultures).
            length); iCtr++) {
            CultureInfo ci = 
                CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.NeutralCultures)[iCtr];
            Console.Write("{0,-7}", ci.get_Name());
            Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.get_TwoLetterISOLanguageName());
            Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.get_ThreeLetterISOLanguageName());
            Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.get_ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName());
            Console.Write(" {0,-40}", ci.get_DisplayName());
            Console.WriteLine(" {0,-40}", ci.get_EnglishName());
        }
    } //main 
} //SamplesCultureInfo

/*
This code produces the following output.  This output has been cropped 
for brevity.

CULTURE ISO ISO WIN DISPLAYNAME                              ENGLISHNAME
ar      ar  ara ARA Arabic                                   Arabic
bg      bg  bul BGR Bulgarian                                Bulgarian
ca      ca  cat CAT Catalan                                  Catalan
zh-Hans  zh  zho CHS Chinese (Simplified)                     Chinese 
(Simplified)
zh-Hant  zh  zho CHT Chinese (Traditional)                    Chinese
(Traditional)
cs      cs  ces CSY Czech                                    Czech
da      da  dan DAN Danish                                   Danish
de      de  deu DEU German                                   German
el      el  ell ELL Greek                                    Greek
en      en  eng ENU English                                  English
es      es  spa ESP Spanish                                  Spanish
fi      fi  fin FIN Finnish                                  Finnish
*/

Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 2.0, 1.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: 1.0

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