Chapter 16-Lesson 1-2

• System.Globalization namespace is required for creating culture-sensitive applications.
• As a rule, a culture will be grouped into one of three categories: an invariant culture, a neutral culture, or a specific culture.
• Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture gives a CultureInfo object representing the culture of the system in which the thread is executing.
• We should use formatting options when setting/displaying strings in our applications so that any changes made to the CurrentCulture would propagate to it.
• CurrentUICulture represents the culture for displaying the application and may or may not be the same as CurrentCulture.
• Also, CurrentUICulture must be set at application startup (suitably in Main( ) or Form constructor) which is a behavious opposed to CurrentCulture property. (which may be set at any time.
• The DateTimeFormatInfo class provides a comprehensive set of methods and properties to handle and respond to the dates of different cultures.
• Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat property is used for this purpose. It is of type DateFormatInfo.
• NumberFormat property represents the same case for numbers and currencies.
• CompareInfo property of CultureInfo allows for culture sensitive comparisons (usually for strings)
• CultureRegionAndInfoBuilder class is new in .NET 2.0
• A reference to C:\Windows\.NET Framework\[VERSION]\sysglobl.dll is required to use this class.
• This class takes CultureAndRegionModifiers enumeration value in its second argument for constructor which specifies how much of an existing culture should be loaded in the new custom culture.