>You shouldn't do this on every culture formatting operation. Instead you should set your culture format once in the app and then re-use those settings for all format operations. If that's not possible for whatever reason then at least cache the CultureInfo structures in a Dictionary< string,CultureInfo > structure and retrieve the pre-set culture instead of recreating and re-customizing each time. Loading up a culture is expensive as .NET has to populate all those culture specific values from the OS each time.
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>If this is a Web app you should do this once in the beginning of a request Application_BeginRequest and then simply use CultureInfo.

Um - isn't this just what Michel said he was going to do at the beginning of this thread ?

>You can find more info on this here:
>http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/wwDbResourceProvider/introtolocalization.aspx
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>There's a section on "Assigning Culture in ASP.NET" that shows how to do this exact thing (setting the currency symbol specifically).
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>In desktop applications you'd do the same thing either when the Application starts for the first time, or when the user switches locales (bad idea) on the fly within the application.
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>+++ Rick ---