| CultureInfo Class |
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 HierarchyNamespace: System.Globalization
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll) Version: 4.0.0.0
SyntaxC#
[SerializableAttribute] public class CultureInfo : ICloneable, IFormatProvider
The CultureInfo type exposes the following members.
Methods| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Clone | Creates a copy of the current CultureInfo. |
| Equals | Determines whether the specified object is the same culture as the current CultureInfo. (Overrides ObjectEquals(Object).) |
 | GetCultureInfo(Int32) | Retrieves a cached, read-only instance of a culture by using the specified culture identifier. |
| GetCultureInfo(String) | Retrieves a cached, read-only instance of a culture by using the specified culture name. |
| GetCultureInfo(String, String) | Retrieves a cached, read-only instance of a culture. Parameters specify a culture that is initialized with the TextInfo and CompareInfo objects specified by another culture. |
| GetCultureInfoByIetfLanguageTag | Deprecated. Retrieves a read-only CultureInfo object having linguistic characteristics that are identified by the specified RFC 4646 language tag. |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for the current CultureInfo, suitable for hashing algorithms and data structures, such as a hash table. (Overrides ObjectGetHashCode.) |
| 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 ObjectToString.) |
Properties| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | CurrentCulture | Gets the CultureInfo that represents the culture used by the current thread. |
| CurrentUICulture | Gets the CultureInfo that represents the current culture used by the Resource Manager to look up culture-specific resources at run time. |
| InvariantCulture | Gets the CultureInfo object that is culture-independent (invariant). |
| Name | Gets the culture name in the format "languagecode2-country/regioncode2". |
| TwoLetterISOLanguageName | Gets the ISO 639-1 two-letter code for the language of the current CultureInfo. |
| UseUserOverride | Gets a value indicating whether the current CultureInfo uses the user-selected culture settings. |
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