dates and uk / us format

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to configure a server so that an asp.net page returns date information in uk format without having to explicity specify the date should be uk format. Can it be done somewhere on the server or machine / web config files or similiar so that it is system wide.

Thanks

James

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to configure a server so that an asp.net page returns date information in uk format without having to explicity specify the date should be uk format. Can it be done somewhere on the server or machine / web config files or similiar so that it is system wide.

Thanks

James

Not sure with .NET, but the system regional settings controlled stuff like this in VBS/ASP.

[RFH Reseller: Sol]

In .Net you set the Thread's CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture.

v1.1 Tutorial: http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/Tutoria...3D2EDD38B.dcik

v2 Quickstart: http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickst...alization.aspx

[RFH Reseller: askjim]

Cheers Sol for the solution - I guy at work stumbled on the same solution today. What was strange was the server always displayed UK dates and then a MS patch later US dates everywhere which was really annoying.

[psykik]

very powerfull option the localization with Culture and UICulture.
I succeeded in making a complete multilangual website for a client of mine using the Culture Object and using it in the database.
the culture is stored in a profile (which is also anonymous enabled)

it's still in beta testing phase
but you can check it here
http://www.gedoptonline.be/Crasperformance/

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

very powerfull option the localization with Culture and UICulture.
I succeeded in making a complete multilangual website for a client of mine using the Culture Object and using it in the database.
the culture is stored in a profile (which is also anonymous enabled)

it's still in beta testing phase
but you can check it here
http://www.gedoptonline.be/Crasperformance/

Interesting stuff, I have to do something similar with the new website... are you storing translations in the database?

[psykik]

yes I basically have to use 3 tables:

example: for newsitems:
I have the following tables
News (with Id (identity), datestamp)
News_LOCAL (with id, culture_id, title, content)
Culture (id, culturename)


news_local has a double primary key : id, culture_id

and in my select statements all I have to do is request a parameter @culture which is stored in each visitors profile.
profiles are easy to use since they accept anonymous access.



as for the inserting and updating of data I have to use stored procedures so that for each entry different rows are written inside the _LOCAL tables.


as for the static resources I simply use resourcefiles but I'm guessing you know how that works warren

it's quite neat and it works very well... no need for querystrings ?language=.... in the url's


:p

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Interesting way of doing it...

For static resources I need to have it in an XML file that can be updated outside the application, works just as well with a nice helper class to handle it

[psykik]

Interesting way of doing it...

For static resources I need to have it in an XML file that can be updated outside the application, works just as well with a nice helper class to handle it

aren't the generated resource files in xml format?
I think yes.
and you don't need to precompile them zo you can change them and upload them without putting the website offline first

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

aren't the generated resource files in xml format?
I think yes.
and you don't need to precompile them zo you can change them and upload them without putting the website offline first

But when you precompile the source for distribution (IE: I would never upload code to a server for security reasons), it becomes an issue...

Besides, precompilation has various performance enhancements.