ASP.NET FTP Tool - CultureInfo

The beta testing of the ASP.NET FTP Deployment Tool continues with mostly success stories being reported. I did have an interesting report this morning from someone running with their machine's culture set to "Dutch". The application failed almost immediately as a result of a DateTime.Parse assuming US-eng. The individual reporting the problem let me know that this was a common issue with software that is downloaded.

I have to admit that I didn't even consider CultureInfo in this WinForm application, although I've dealt with some internationalization issues in web applications. One more issue to consider when using the Internet to distribute our thoughts, ideas and products.

Published Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:23 AM by shark

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# re: ASP.NET FTP Tool - CultureInfo

Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:45 AM by Phil Scott
I was working on a program once that was basically a text editor. Well, back in VB3 you were stuck with that 32k limit for text, so I had to find an VBX file to handle the large files. So I get everything working, no problems. A month later someone in Poland couldn't type brackets because of the control, which were vital to the syntax. Argh...

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