Question

Within a C# class project, there’s the Properties file called AssemblyInfo.cs. Within this file are a series of assembly attributes including AssemblyTitle, AssemblyDescription, and so on, which are used to describe certain details about the compiled project. One of these is AssemblyCulture.

I understand what the others are used for, but What is AssemblyCulture used to describe? Language? Currency? A bit of both?

Whenever I’ve seen this property, it’s been left blank.

Answer 1

From the documentation:

The attribute is used by compilers to distinguish between a main assembly and a satellite assembly. A main assembly contains code and the neutral culture’s resources. A satellite assembly contains only resources for a particular culture, as in [assembly:AssemblyCultureAttribute("de")]. Putting this attribute on an assembly and using something other than the empty string ("") for the culture name will make this assembly look like a satellite assembly, rather than a main assembly that contains executable code. Labeling a traditional code library with this attribute will break it, because no other code will be able to find the library’s entry points at runtime.

To summarize: This attribute is used internally by the framework to mark the satellite assemblies automatically created when you add localized resources to your project. You will probably never need to manually set this attribute to anything other than "".