Default Culture in VS2008?

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Hi,

I am trying to understand how VS2008 (3.5) decides on the current
culture. I am finding this very confusing.

I have checked my web.config and machine.config and neither have a
globalisation page. I thought that would mean that it would pick up
regional settings but it didn't seem to. Then I looked at the ASP.NET
page in IIS - it shows a culture of af-ZA (Afrikaans - South Africa).

Where is it getting this from? This is not the culture on the machine
and noone would have ever set it to this culture... What on earth is
going on?

Cheers,

James
 
Hi,

I am trying to understand how VS2008 (3.5) decides on the current
culture. I am finding this very confusing.

I have checked my web.config and machine.config and neither have a
globalisation page. I thought that would mean that it would pick up
regional settings but it didn't seem to. Then I looked at the ASP.NET
page in IIS - it shows a culture of af-ZA (Afrikaans - South Africa).

Where is it getting this from? This is not the culture on the machine
and noone would have ever set it to this culture... What on earth is
going on?

Cheers,

James
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Hi James,

first of all, this is not related to VS2008. The website takes
configuration from the web.config file and server settings, but not
from IDE.

You problem seems to be caused by IIS configuration. Go to IIS, right-
click your website and select properties, then go to ASP.NET tab,
click Edit configuration and then Application. And check what
Globalization Settings it has.

Hope this helps
 
Hi James,

first of all, this is not related to VS2008. The website takes
configuration from the web.config file and server settings, but not
from IDE.

You problem seems to be caused by IIS configuration. Go to IIS, right-
click your website and select properties, then go to ASP.NET tab,
click Edit configuration and then Application. And check what
Globalization Settings it has.

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Hi Alexey,

Yep sorry about that. Obviously this is Framework/IIS related, not
VisualStudio related.

Yes it is the IIS ASP.NET showing the af-ZA culture. That's already
established. I am just confused as to where this value is coming from?
This must be a default setting somewhere as I certainly didn't change
it and neither did any of my colleagues. It is also not the regional
setting on the machine. Is this a default setting in IIS?

James
 
Hi Alexey,

Yep sorry about that. Obviously this is Framework/IIS related, not
VisualStudio related.

Yes it is the IIS ASP.NET showing the af-ZA culture. That's already
established. I am just confused as to where this value is coming from?
This must be a default setting somewhere as I certainly didn't change
it and neither did any of my colleagues. It is also not the regional
setting on the machine. Is this a default setting in IIS?

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It seems that this is by default for IIS6. It simply set af-ZA because
it is the first item in the culture list. This behavior seems to have
been changed in IIS7 (Windows 2008) and has became more clever: by
default culture and uiculture is set to "Invariant Language (Invariant
Country)".
 
It seems that this is by default for IIS6. It simply set af-ZA because
it is the first item in the culture list. This behavior seems to have
been changed in IIS7 (Windows 2008) and has became more clever: by
default culture and uiculture is set to "Invariant Language (Invariant
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But Invariant Language (Invariant Country) uses American date format,
but I was getting British/Afrikaans date format. So looks like IIS
actually uses the AF-ZA value, rather than just having an erroneous
display... As I am based in the UK I was by pure fluke getting the
right format. By the way, my dev machine is XP, using IIS 5.

Thanks for the help. I'll be adding a Globalization section to all my
web.configs from now on!

e.g.
<!-- Set date formats and currency formats and insulate
application against external changes on the server.-->
<globalization uiCulture="en-GB" culture="en-GB" />

James
 
Do you have defined a language in your browser perhaps just as a test ? Or
you have deleted all languages ?

Not sure but the default could be "auto" in which case ASP.NET will use the
preferred language transmitted by your browser(by using the accept-language
http header)...
 
But Invariant Language (Invariant Country) uses American date format,
but I was getting British/Afrikaans date format. So looks like IIS
actually uses the AF-ZA value, rather than just having an erroneous
display... As I am based in the UK I was by pure fluke getting the
right format. By the way, my dev machine is XP, using IIS 5.
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As I mentioned, invariant culture is set by default in IIS7 under
Win2008. Under XP and Win2003 I see the same af-ZA by default.
 
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