Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Introducing .NET Localization

The .NET Framework provides the infrastructure for application localization via the System.Globalization namespace. The most important class in this namespace is the CultureInfo class that allows getting or setting information on the current application culture or on new custom settings. Generally this class works with the System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread class that provides access to the thread representing your executable and that exposes the CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture properties that you can assign with a CultureInfo object. The following code demonstrates how to get information on the current thread culture and how to set a new CultureInfo:

The CultureInfo class provides lots of properties that ...