auto culture for code in App_Code

mega · January 5th, 2007, 02:23 PM

Hi all.

I'm doing my first crack at localization and found it fairly easy but for some reason it doesn't effect code in the App_Code folder. I have a helper class that fills in months into a DropDownList like so:

Code:

public void PopulateWithMonths(DropDownList ddlcontrol, bool selectcurrent)
    {
        DateTime month = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, 1, 1);
        for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
            DateTime NextMont = month.AddMonths(i);
            ListItem item = new ListItem();
            item.Text = NextMont.ToString("MMM") + " - " + NextMont.AddMonths(5).ToString("MMM");
            item.Value = NextMont.Month.ToString();
            ddlcontrol.Items.Add(item);
        }
        if (selectcurrent == true)
        {
            ddlcontrol.Items.FindByValue(DateTime.Today.Month.ToString()).Selected = true;
        }
    }

Where can I change this behavior?

Thanks in advance!

- mega
Moving to C# .NET

mega · January 5th, 2007, 02:35 PM

Doesn't matter I figured it out. Here is the code:

Code:

 public void PopulateWithMonths(DropDownList ddlcontrol, bool selectcurrent)
    {
        GregorianCalendar culture = new GregorianCalendar(GregorianCalendarTypes.Localized);
        DateTime month = new DateTime(DateTime.Today.Year, 1, 1, culture);
        for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
            DateTime NextMont = month.AddMonths(i);
            ListItem item = new ListItem();
            item.Text = NextMont.ToString("MMM") + " - " + NextMont.AddMonths(5).ToString("MMM");
            item.Value = NextMont.Month.ToString();
            ddlcontrol.Items.Add(item);
        }
        if (selectcurrent == true)
        {
            ddlcontrol.Items.FindByValue(DateTime.Today.Month.ToString()).Selected = true;
        }
    }

- mega
Moving to C# .NET

zaghmout · January 9th, 2007, 05:59 AM

Well I have a similar problem, I have created a web application that deals much with dates, and I debugged it, and it was perfect.
When I published the page, the dates switched into the Arabic format!
I checked the regional setting, and the default was English, I added the culture into the web.config. But still same problem!

So any suggestions?

mega · January 12th, 2007, 03:06 PM

Hi zaghmout.

First make sure that your page declaration (or define it in web.config) is

Code:

<%@ Page Culture="auto" UICulture="auto" %>

That ensures that the culture that the browser is using is the one ASP.NET is responding to (you can also specify a culture if you want).
Second look at how your browser is configured. If you use IE6 it's: Tools -> Internet settings -> the general tab and then click the Language button. The highest ranking language is the one the browser sends to the web server. If FF: Tools -> Settings -> the general tab and then click the "Choose..." button in the Language fieldset. The same language rule applies to both browsers.
Hope this helps!

- mega
Moving to C# .NET

zaghmout · January 14th, 2007, 04:59 AM

Thanks a lot mega,

You really cannot imagine how much help that was :)

And yeap it did work :)

zaghmout · April 5th, 2007, 05:06 AM

while I was working, I had some crystal reports which contains date too, and I noticed that it does not take the date format neither from the IIS, nor from the web.config, nor even from the regional settings! I really don't know how exactly it decided the date format, and that was a real problem :) so for whom who have this problem you should ALWAY customize the date in the crystal reports :) unless there were something I'm missing here :)

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