BackgroundWorker culture

[Mecena]

Hi all!

Anyone ever tried initializing form resources inside BackgroundWorke r's DoWork() method? Problem is that it's thread's culture is set to neutral by default. How can I change that?

M.

[gehho]

I know this might be a bit late for you, but it might be useful for other users...

I also ran into that problem. Now I simply changed the current thread's culture within the DoWork() method. The first statement in your DoWork() method should be something like this:

private void backgroundWorker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
	System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US");

	// do your work here...
}

If you want your background worker thread to use the same culture as your main thread, you could access the application's culture using

System.Windows.Forms.Application.CurrentCulture

or you just provide it as an argument to the worker.

gehho.