CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture Property

Definition

Gets or sets the CultureInfo object that represents the current user interface culture used by the Resource Manager to look up culture-specific resources at run time.

public static System.Globalization.CultureInfo CurrentUICulture { get; set; }
public static System.Globalization.CultureInfo CurrentUICulture { get; }

Property Value

The culture used by the Resource Manager to look up culture-specific resources at run time.

Exceptions

The property is set to null.

The property is set to a culture name that cannot be used to locate a resource file. Resource filenames can include only letters, numbers, hyphens, or underscores.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to change the CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture of the current thread.

using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Threading;

public class Example0
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      // Display the name of the current culture.
      Console.WriteLine("CurrentCulture is {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name);

      // Change the current culture to th-TH.
      CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("th-TH", false);
      Console.WriteLine("CurrentCulture is now {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Name);

      // Display the name of the current UI culture.
      Console.WriteLine("CurrentUICulture is {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name);

      // Change the current UI culture to ja-JP.
      CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo( "ja-JP", false );
      Console.WriteLine("CurrentUICulture is now {0}.", CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name);
   }
}
// The example displays the following output:
//       CurrentCulture is en-US.
//       CurrentCulture is now th-TH.
//       CurrentUICulture is en-US.
//       CurrentUICulture is now ja-JP.

Remarks

For more information about this API, see Supplemental API remarks for CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0

See also