Setting Culture for ASP.NET MVC application on VS dev server and IIS

Question

This is more specific and cleaner version of this question - Different DateTimeFormat for dev and test environment

In the Application_BeginRequest() method of global.asax.cs in my ASP.NET MVC project there is code:

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-GB"); 

When I set a breakpoint on Controller Action I see the following value of Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture:

1. In VS dev server - "en-GB"
2. In IIS - "en-US"

Question is - What settings in IIS are responsible for this and how can I override it?

Answer 1

Rather than setting the Thread's culture, you can specify it in the web.config like so:

<configuration>     <system.web>         <globalization uiCulture="en-GB" culture="en-GB" />     </system.web> </configuration> 

That is a more "proper" way of specifying the culture in ASP.NET.