How to: Get Culture Information
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: