CultureInfo Class

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Provides information about a specific culture (called a locale for unmanaged code development). The information includes the names for the culture, the writing system, the calendar used, and formatting for dates and sort strings.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System. . :: . .Object
  System.Globalization..::..CultureInfo

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class CultureInfo

public class CultureInfo

public ref class CultureInfo

type CultureInfo =  class end

public class CultureInfo

The CultureInfo type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	CultureInfo	Initializes a new instance of the CultureInfo class based on the culture specified by name.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	CurrentUICulture	Gets the CultureInfo object that represents the current user interface culture used by the Resource Manager to look up culture-specific resources at run time.
	DateTimeFormat	Gets or sets a DateTimeFormatInfo that defines the culturally appropriate format of displaying dates and times.
	Name	Gets the culture name in the format languagecode2-country/regioncode2.
	NumberFormat	Gets or sets a NumberFormatInfo that defines the culturally appropriate format of displaying numbers, currency, and percentage.
	Parent	Gets the CultureInfo that represents the parent culture of the current CultureInfo.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetCultures	Gets the list of supported cultures filtered by the specified CultureTypes parameter.
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string containing the name of the current CultureInfo in the format languagecode2-country/regioncode2. (Overrides Object. . :: . .ToString() () () ().)

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Remarks

The CultureInfo class provides culture-specific information, such as the language, sublanguage, country/region, calendar, and conventions associated with a particular culture. The CultureInfo class is used either directly or indirectly by classes that format, parse, or manipulate culture-specific data, such as String, DateTime, DateTimeOffset, and the numeric types.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

System.Globalization Namespace