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WinRT apps and Regional settings. The correct way to format dates and numbers based on the user’s regional settings?

It’s been a while, but the question is not fully answered, so let me share my little research. Depechie is mostly right, but he provided only a link and wasn’t really sure. Yes, this unexpected change is intentional. We shouldn’t use CultureInfo anymore as it contains legacy codes and Microsoft want us to use Windows.Globalization … Read more

Use “real” CultureInfo.CurrentCulture in WPF Binding, not CultureInfo from IetfLanguageTag

You can create a subclass of binding (e.g. CultureAwareBinding) which sets the ConverterCulture automatically to the current culture when created. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s probably the only one, since retroactively forcing Binding to respect the culture could break other code in WPF which depends on this behavior. Let me know if you … Read more

Best way to parse float?

I agree with leppie’s reply; to put that in terms of code: string s = “123,456.789”; float f = float.Parse(s, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);