ASP.NET server side culture

Question

Hi,

I have an application that runs on an English-US ASP.NET server (English installation of windows server and .NET Framework). I set the globalization settings to :

<globalization culture="auto" uiCulture="auto" responseEncoding="utf-8"/>

which works fine for most of the application. However, I have to deal with money transactions in that application and I need to provide the numbers in the 0.00 format (not 0,00). Most of our users use the application from a culture that uses 0,00.

I found out that even when using Decimal.ToString("0.00") the decimals were still being printed as 0,00 on french browsers.

What's the correct way of dealing with that issuue? Should I change the current culture for the function where I need to deal with numbers to set it to EN-US for the time being? Will I always get the right format if I use Decimal.ToString("0.00", NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo) ?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Change culture on every variable is too painful. Try use the Thread culture info. Something like:

CultureInfo MyCulture = new CultureInfo("fr-FR");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = MyCulture;

You may set this configuration at global.asax, at the user login or at master page level.

Best

Answer 2

You can change most culture information by setting it. The specific setting you want is:

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencyDecimalSeparator = "."