Culture Builder Application Sample (CultureSample)

One of the sample applications in the Visual Studio 2005 documentation is called the Culture Builder Application Sample (aka CultureSample) and is aimed squarely at creating custom cultures. Start the documentation and search for "Culture Builder Sample." Open either the CultureSampleCS.sln or CultureSampleVB.sln Windows Forms applications and build it; you will get CultureBuilderSample.exe, a UI for building new custom cultures (see Figure 11.4).

Figure 11.4. CultureBuilderSample application for building custom cultures

Click "New Culture." After you enter the culture's name, you can specify the culture's formatting options using a dialog (see Figure 11.5), modeled on the Regional and Language Options' Customize dialog.

Figure 11.5. CultureBuilderSample application for building custom cultures

Click OK to save your custom culture. CultureBuilderSample can also be used to combine cultures and to create replacement cultures.