How to: Get Culture Information

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This topic contains code examples for accessing culture information and making your application compatible for global use.

To get the current locale setting for the device

  • Create an instance of CultureInfo for the executing assembly.

Example

Private Sub GetCultureInformation()
    Dim asm As Assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
    Dim ci As CultureInfo = asm.GetName().CultureInfo
    MessageBox.Show(ci.EnglishName)
End Sub

private void GetCultureInformation()
{
    Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
    CultureInfo ci = asm.GetName().CultureInfo;
    MessageBox.Show(ci.EnglishName);
}

Compiling the Code

This example requires references to System and the following namespaces: