I have a desktop application programmed using visual basic. It works fine on the US English settings

Put this code in your application startup.

Private Sub Application_Startup(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.StartupEventArgs) Handles Me.Startup

Dim objCulture As CultureInfo = New CultureInfo("en-US")

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = objCulture

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = objCulture

'HACK - Ensure the current culture passed into bindings is the OS culture.

' By default, WPF uses en-US as the culture, regardless of the system settings.

FrameworkElement.LanguageProperty.OverrideMetadata(

GetType(FrameworkElement), New FrameworkPropertyMetadata(System.Windows.Markup.XmlLanguage.GetLanguage(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.IetfLanguageTag)))

End Sub

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Cheers, Karl - Microsoft Product Team, Code Project MVP - http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/

Thank you for the code, and i know this sounds naive but when i copy the above code it says " Name FrameworkElement is not declared". I dont know anything about how to initalize or use frameworkelement. Can you help me out with this?

Are you writing a WPF application?

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Cheers, Karl - Microsoft Product Team, Code Project MVP - http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/