How to produce localized date string with CultureInfo

Question

I have the following code that produces a date string in en-us format. I would like to pass in the LCID (or equivalent value for the localized language) to produce the localized version of the date string. How would I accomplish this?

public static string ConvertDateTimeToDate(string dateTimeString) {      CultureInfo culture = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;     DateTime dt = DateTime.MinValue;      if (DateTime.TryParse(dateTimeString, out dt))     {         return dt.ToShortDateString();     }     return dateTimeString;   } 

Answer 1

You can use the second argument to the toString function and use any language/culture you need...

You can use the "d" format instead of ToShortDateString according to MSDN...

So basically something like this to return as Australian English:

CultureInfo enAU = new CultureInfo("en-AU"); dt.ToString("d", enAU); 

you could modify your method to include the language and culture as a parameter

public static string ConvertDateTimeToDate(string dateTimeString, String langCulture) {      CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo(langCulture);     DateTime dt = DateTime.MinValue;      if (DateTime.TryParse(dateTimeString, out dt))     {         return dt.ToString("d",culture);     }     return dateTimeString;   } 

Edit
You may also want to look at the overloaded tryParse method if you need to parse the string against a particular language/culture...