how do i set a the current culture to es-US???

Regards

Karen

Do you mean setting your browser to test culture changes, or manual changing by a user who prefers one culture over another?

i am using a dropdownlist and asking the user to select it.

REgards

Karen

You have to override the Page's InitializeCulture() method, and set the culture inside of it.  More info: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bz9tc508.aspx

Ps2goat,

  thanks for your answer, this is what i am doing?

<tr>
				<td align = "center" >
				<asp:Label ID = "lblLanguage" runat ="server" Text = "Select a langauage" />
				<asp:DropDownList ID = "ddlLanguage" AutoPostBack = "true" runat ="server" >
				<asp:ListItem Value = "en-US">English</asp:ListItem>
				<asp:ListItem Value = "es">Spanish</asp:ListItem>
				</asp:DropDownList>
				</td>
				</tr>

Protected Overrides Sub InitializeCulture()
        If Request.Form("ddlLanguage") IsNot Nothing Then
            Dim selectedLanguage As String = _
                Request.Form("ddlLanguage")
            UICulture = Request.Form("ddlLanguage")
            Culture = Request.Form("ddlLanguage")
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = _
                CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(selectedLanguage)
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New _
                CultureInfo(selectedLanguage)
        End If
        MyBase.InitializeCulture()
    End Sub

 but i am getting an error called

Culture 'es' is a neutral culture. It cannot be used in formatting and parsing and therefore cannot be set as the thread's current culture

regards,

Karen

I had never tried to set this myself, so I never ran into this problem before.  I know that in order to set a specific culture, you need to set the region (i.e. en-US is the US version of English, which helps with formatting like using $ instead of British pounds.)

 So, you can either let the user select a country from another list box and append that country code, or set an arbitrary default that everyone must use, such as Spanish for Spain.  The latter is what you would be doing, anyway.  However, in the terms of globalization, I think that someone with their browser set to Spanish for Mexico would actually get English (or whatever the default language is).

Another workaround would be to not set the UICulture or Culture properties (at least not he Culture property, as that is causing your error).  I tested the following code (no controls, to be concise) and it worked:

	Protected Overrides Sub InitializeCulture()
		System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("es")
		System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("es")
		MyBase.InitializeCulture()
	End Sub

So do u mean in order to get it work in the spanish i need to change the regional setting to the following lang?

Hi Karen,

Your code is good. The only problem is that there is no culture "es-US". What you want is the spanish spoken in the USA, right? Well, it's mexican spanish so just use "es-MX" and you're done!

Hope this helps,

Arnaud