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Botz3000
Botz3000

Reputation: 39660

How can i globally set the Culture in a WPF Application?

I would like to set the Culture of a WPF application to a specific one based on user preferences.

I can do this for the current thread via Thread.CurrentThread.Current(UI)Culture, but is there any way to do this globally for the application (so it affects all threads by default)?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 25940

Answers (5)

Darren
Darren

Reputation: 4488

Or you could try this:

 FrameworkElement.LanguageProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(FrameworkElement), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(Markup.XmlLanguage.GetLanguage(Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.IetfLanguageTag)));

Upvotes: 4

Gilad
Gilad

Reputation: 6595

ok so this is what I use in order to make sure all of my app is in a en-US culture.

CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
XmlLanaguage lang = XmlLanguage.GetLanguage(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.IetfLanguageTag);
FrameworkElement.LanguageProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(FrameworkElement), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(lang));
FrameworkContentElement.LanguageProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(System.Windows.Documents.TextElement), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(lang));

in order to make a single thread in a culture you can make 

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("EN-US");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("EN-US");

Upvotes: 6

Scott Whitlock
Scott Whitlock

Reputation: 13839

Try putting

<UICulture>en-US</UICulture>

... in your csproj file.

Upvotes: 6

Matze
Matze

Reputation: 1584

Or try building an appropriate Attached Property like this

public class CultureHelper : DependencyObject
{

    public string Culture
    {
        get { return (string)GetValue(CultureProperty); }
        set { SetValue(CultureProperty, value); }
    }




    // Using a DependencyProperty as the backing store for MyProperty.  This enables animation, styling, binding, etc...
    public static readonly DependencyProperty CultureProperty =
        DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("Culture", typeof(string), typeof(CultureHelper), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata("en", CultureChanged));

    private static void CultureChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        //For testing purposes in designer only 
        if (DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode(d))
        {
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo((string)e.NewValue);
        }

    }

    public static void SetCulture(DependencyObject element, string value)
    {
        element.SetValue(CultureProperty, value);
    }

    public static string GetCulture(DependencyObject element)
    {
        return (string)element.GetValue(CultureProperty);
    }


}

Upvotes: 0

Wael Dalloul
Wael Dalloul

Reputation: 23044

there is no way to set it for all threads in the application, however if you are creating the threads in your application you can set the culture for everyone by yourself as you mentioned above

To set the Culture to the Main Application use the following snippet code:

Dim newCulture As CultureInfo = new CultureInfo("fr-FR")
CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = newCulture

Upvotes: 11

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