ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Using the CultureInfo Class

The CultureInfo class contains information about more than 150 different cultures. You can use the methods of this class in your code to retrieve information about a specific culture and use the information when formatting values such as dates, numbers, and currency amounts.

To represent a culture with the CultureInfo class, you can instantiate the class by passing a culture name to the class constructor like this:

Dim culture As New CultureInfo("de-DE")

You can also use any of the following methods of the CultureInfo class to retrieve information about a culture or cultures:

• CreateSpecificCulture— Enables you to create a CultureInfo object by supplying the name of a specific culture.

• GetCultureInfo— Enables ...