Question

I am developing a software that uses number precision, but I have this problem, it happens that when I take a string to convert to double it outputs me with a different culture.

For example I use

Convert.ToDouble("4089.90"); // it outputs 40.899,00

Is strange cause in my computer it works OK but on the client’s PC (with the same culture in regional settings) shows me the latter output. I know I can fix it using

Convert.ToDouble("4089.90", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

But there is a lot of code in the program using “Convert.ToDouble” and I wouldn’t like to change all of it, on the other hand I want to understand why this happens.

Answer 1

You can set the culture for your thread with:

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = 
       System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;