Name Property
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CompareInfo.Name Property

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Gets the name of the culture used for sorting operations by this CompareInfo object.

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

'Declaration
Public Overridable ReadOnly Property Name As String

Property Value

Type: System.String
The name of a culture.

The following example compares three strings using the fr-FR and ja-JP cultures. The Name property is used to display the name of each culture.


Imports System.Text
Imports System.Globalization

Public NotInheritable Class Example
   Public Shared Sub Demo(ByVal outputBlock As System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock)
      Dim sign() As String = {"<", "=", ">"}

      ' The code below demonstrates how strings compare 
      ' differently for different cultures.
      Dim s1 As String = "Coté"
      Dim s2 As String = "coté"
      Dim s3 As String = "côte"

      ' Set sort order of strings for French in France.
      Dim ci As CompareInfo = New CultureInfo("fr-FR").CompareInfo

      ' Display the result using fr-FR Compare of Coté = coté.  	
      outputBlock.Text += String.Format("fr-FR Compare: {0} {2} {1}", _
                        s1, s2, sign((ci.Compare(s1, s2, CompareOptions.IgnoreCase) + 1)))

      ' Display the result using fr-FR Compare of coté > côte.
      outputBlock.Text += String.Format("fr-FR Compare: {0} {2} {1}", _
                        s2, s3, sign((ci.Compare(s2, s3, CompareOptions.None) + 1)))

      ' Set sort order of strings for Japanese as spoken in Japan.
      ci = New CultureInfo("ja-JP").CompareInfo

      ' Display the result using ja-JP Compare of coté < côte. 
      outputBlock.Text += String.Format("ja-JP Compare: {0} {2} {1}", _
                        s2, s3, sign((ci.Compare(s2, s3) + 1)))
   End Sub 
End Class 

' This code produces the following output.
' 
' fr-FR Compare: Coté = coté
' fr-FR Compare: coté > côte
' ja-JP Compare: coté < côte


Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

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