Best way to set CurrentCulture so it applies to all WPF components

Question

I've just learnt to my surprise that WPF doesn't use the CurrentCulture for bindings, instead defaulting to en-US.

In a pure WPF application, this can be fixed in one place by setting the language globally once in the App class.

However I have a WinForms application that is being progressively migrated to WPF, and contains several WPF UserControls. What's the best/simplest way to ensure the CurrentCulture is used for all UserControls? Do I really have to make all my UserControls inherit from a base class that does this, or is there some way to set it globally?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 28 '11 at 18:37

1

You can use a slightly different approach and derive once from ElementHost and manipulate your WPF UserControl instances as they are instantiated. For example, you can create a LocalizingElementHost with a ChildChanged event handler that does to the child what you would have done in a base class.

answered Apr 28 '11 at 18:37

Rick Sladkey

33,988
6
71
95

Changed my accepted answer to this one. Deriving from ElementHost is looking more and more attractive - the latest good reason being to implement the workaround in this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955753 – Joe May 04 '11 at 19:27

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '11 at 18:48

1

You can still use the same approach with LanguageProperty.OverrideMetadata, just put it at the beginning of your program (Main method).

answered Apr 28 '11 at 18:48

Thomas Levesque

286,951
70
623
758

+1 - both this and Rick Sladkey's answers are equally valid, I'm accepting this one as it's what I ended up implementing. – Joe Apr 29 '11 at 13:11

Best way to set CurrentCulture so it applies to all WPF components

2 Answers2

Linked