Easily setting the culture on each ASP.NET request.....

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Noticed something I thought was neat in the Time Tracker Starter Kit white paper - a little snippet of code that sets the culture based on the language setting of the user's browser. Here is the snippet:

// For each request initialize the culture values with
// the user language as specified by the browser.
protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Request.UserLanguages != null)
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(Request.UserLanguages[0]);
else
// Default to English if there are no user languages
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-us");

   Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
}

 

If  you've never checked out the code in the Starter Kits then you are missing out.

UPDATE: Check out Christian Nagel's Localization post here and here. Christian also points out that some exception handling should be added to the code above to handle the situation where someone set their locale to soemthing the Framework does not support.

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