Change language of error messages in ASP.NET

Question

I developing ASP.NET application using a Swedish version of Windows XP and Visual studio Professional. When ever i get an error aka. "yellow screen of death" the error message is in swedish, making it a bit hard to search for info about it.

How can i change what language the error messages in ASP.NET uses?

• I have no language pack installed for the .net framework. I am however running an english windows xp with a swedish language interface pack on it.

• I also have this in my web.config:

Answer 1

Aren't the error messages dependent on the installed .NET Framework? I.e. you could just uninstall the Swedish language pack for .NET. On the production server, you'll most likely have an English-only Framework anyway.

Answer 2

In web.config add:

<system.web>
   <globalization uiCulture="en-US" />
</system.web>

or whatever language you prefer (note: uiCulture="en-US" not culture="en-US").

Also you should check that your app is not changing the uiCulture, for example to a user-specific uiCulture in global.asax.

If the error occurs before or during processing the web.config file, this will of course make no difference. In this case, you need to change the regional settings of the account under which the ASP.NET app is running.

If you are developing with VS2005 or later, you're probably running under the Cassini web server, under the identity of the current user - so just change the current user's settings. If you're using IIS, you probably want to change the regional settings of the ASPNET account - you can do this from Regional Settings in the Control Panel by checking the checkbox "Apply to current user and to the default user profile".