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why we use Thread for implementing `CurrentCulture` and `CurrentUICulture` in ASP.NET Multilingual website

In Internationalization, why do we use the Multithreading or Thread for performing CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture in Globalization and Localization in MVC

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  • Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture

    is for Dateformats, Numbers, etc. bit not the actual language. These format settings are already implemented in ASP.NET. So you just have to say you want to use en-US and you get the numbers in the USA format. If you switch to en-GB, you get them in the British format.

    Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture

    is for the actual language that YOU have to implement with resource files (*.resx). This defines which resource file is used to load the language resources from.

    You often support more CurrentCulture settings than CurrentUICulture.