Category Archives: internationalization

Initialize TextBox contents for the computer’s locale in C#

Posted on September 30, 2018 by RodStephens

Suppose you place numeric, currency, date, and time values in TextBox controls at run time. At design time, the program may have trouble reading those values if the computer running the program is not using the same locale that you … Continue reading →

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Display locale-aware sample dates and currency values in C#

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Rod Stephens

This program uses the following simple CultureData class to store information about a locale. // A class to store cultre data. public class CultureData { // The CultureInfo. public CultureInfo Info; // Initializing constructor. public CultureData(CultureInfo info) { Info = … Continue reading →

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Make locale-aware methods use a new culture at runtime in C#

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Rod Stephens

The example Change program locale at runtime in C# explains how to change a program’s locale and reload its controls for the new locale. However, that doesn’t change the thread’s current culture, which determines the formats used by locale-aware methods … Continue reading →

List available culture codes in C#

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how you can make a list of the culture codes that are available on the system. Several C# Helper examples deal with globalization including Localize a program in C#. To localize a program, you need to specify … Continue reading →

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Make a stopwatch in C#

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Rod Stephens

This program is a simple stopwatch. When you click the Start button, the program changes the button’s caption to Stop and starts a Timer. As the stopwatch Timer runs, the program displays the elapsed time. Click the Stop button to … Continue reading →

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Print a calendar in C#

Posted on January 14, 2016 by RodStephens

This example prints a calendar containing some text for each day. It’s mostly a matter of keeping track of where to draw things, but it also requires you to handle some confusing internationalization issues and there’s one potential gotcha. The … Continue reading →

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Get the name of the first day of the week in C#

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Rod Stephens

Different cultures start the week with a different first day of the week. For example, some cultures start the week with Monday and others start it with Sunday. Usually it doesn’t matter which day is the first day of the … Continue reading →

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Display the local time and GMT in C#

Posted on January 9, 2016 by RodStephens

This example uses a Timer to execute the following code every half second. // Update the clocks. private void tmrClock_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Display the local time. DateTime now = DateTime.Now; lblLocalTime.Text = now.ToLongTimeString(); lblLocalDate.Text = now.ToShortDateString(); // … Continue reading →

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Get date format information for the computer’s locale in C#

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Rod Stephens

The System.Globalization namespace’s InstalledUICulture object provides lots of static methods giving information about numeric, date, and time formatting for the computer’s locale. This example adds a bunch of these values to a ListView control. The following code shows how the … Continue reading →

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Display sample formats for different locales in C#

Posted on October 14, 2015 by RodStephens

This example loops through the system’s defined locales and displays sample numbers, currency values, dates, and times in each. When the program starts, the following code executes. private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { float float_value = 1234.56f; decimal dec_value … Continue reading →