Question

How do I make my application always use English when displaying win32/.net exceptions messages?

I got this message, it looks like someone used babelfish to translate it (it’s Swedish): ‘System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Programmet kunde inte starta eftersom programmets sida-vid-sidakonfiguration är felaktig.’

Extremely unhelpful, and Google had a whopping 4 hits for it, none of them helpful. So I have to guess what the original message was and google that. (It’s was: ‘The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.’)

This time it was fairly simple to find out what the original error message was, having the message in English from the start would of course save me time.

So how do I do that?

Answer 1

You can try setting Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture and/or .CurrentCulture to CultureInfo('en-US').