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Asked: 2026-06-13T21:50:59+00:00

This should be simple but I cannot find the answer anywhere. On our asp.net

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This should be simple but I cannot find the answer anywhere.
On our asp.net MVC site, we show currency values and I need these currency values to Always be in USD regardless of the users culture settings.

If I use string.format(“{0:C}”,value) then it shows the value in what ever culture the use has set.
This is incorrect for us as $1000.00 is not the same thing as 1000.00 euro

I still need to use the language side of this, meaning if they are in France I want to use the French localization resource, so I don’t want to completely disregard their culture settings, but how can I make sure the currency is always shown in USD?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You would have to specify CurrentCulture to be en-US and leave CurrentUICulture as is.

    I usually do this in global.asax.cs in the Application_BeginRequest event 

    System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = 
     new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US", false);

    It is possible to specify the culture in web.config file but that has one drawback – it takes into account the customized regional settings of the server (if the administrator changed the currency or date format on the server for the en-US culture, it would get picked up this way) – so you can’t ever be sure that the application will behave exactly the same as when you created/tested it.

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