C#: Setting CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture of an application

Question

Is there a way of setting culture for a whole application? All current threads and new threads?

We have the name of the culture stored in a database, and when our application starts, we do

CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo(theCultureString);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ci;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ci;

But, of course, this gets "lost" when we want to do something in a new thread. Is there a way of setting that CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture for the whole application? So that new threads also gets that culture? Or is it some event fired whenever a new thread is created that I can hook up to?

Answer 1

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxbcl/thread/b1f9a842-5675-41aa-864b-6a0b8b044d9e/

Answer 2

This gets asked a lot. Basically, no there isn't. You have to do it manually at the start of each new thread (or ThreadPool function). You could perhaps store the culture name (or just the culture object) in a static field to save having to hit the DB, but that it about it.