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How can I get english language specific file information strings with GetVersionInfo?

I'm trying to use FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo() for some Windows(C) executables, such as rasapi32.dll. System redirects such requests to my language specific resources files (systemRoot\ru-Ru\rasapi32.dll.mui). If I can avoid this and get info from real executable (rasapi32.dll) with english copyright, product name and so on strings?
Setting System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture and System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture to "en-US" doesn't helps. Also setting CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture and CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentUICulture to "en-US" doesnt't works too. What have I do to avoid redirection calling GetFileVersionInfo() (used to call it directley fron version.dll too) to mui files, but read original?
{
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US");
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new
System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US");
FileVersionInfo fileVersionInfoUS =
FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo("C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\rasapi32.dll");
}
fileVersionInfoUS.FileDescription will contain "API удаленного доступа", instead of english "Remote Access API", other fields etc.
Thanks for advices.

How to use Multi language in C#

I'm trying to prepare an application with more languages available.
I prepared the simplest example to learn it, I done a lot of tentative but I'm not able to do it.
CultureInfo cul = new CultureInfo("de-De");
Resources.Culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-De");
label1.Text = TestLanguages.Properties.Resources.Saluto;
In my application I have two resources different resources , one for Italian language, one for German.
Italian Resource : Saluto -> Ciao
German Resource : Saluto -> Hallo
But I can't use the German one. How can I do it?

You have to change the UI culture of the currently executing thread.
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("de-De");
label1.Text = TestLanguages.Properties.Resources.Saluto;
See the documentation for Thread.CurrentUICulture
Gets or sets the current culture used by the Resource Manager to look up culture-specific resources at run time.

Get localized string resources before run (C# Winforms)

I need to get localized string resources before run (C# Winforms). I have custom control of button with printing text on event OnPaint. I can set culture for set location before running in the constractor of custom control and see erea for text in designer:
var culture = new CultureInfo("de-DE");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;
But when I try to get string resource before running I get neutral string resource instead of the German:
ResourceManager p = new ResourceManager("myProject.Properties.Resources",
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
Text = p.GetString(ResourceNameForText, new CultureInfo("de-DE"));
How can I get the German string resurce in designer before running?

We have found a solution. We have created an open property in custom control, which calls stream reading and parsing method from Resources.de-DE.resx during design-time mode only.

Use the Culture of the OS, but not the language

I've encountered several times the same problem in applications we develop:
We want to allow the user to edit/display it's data in his format (date, currency, ...), but we want to display the application in English only (for several reasons, it's a pro, international application, in a domain in which we communicate mostly in English).
There is no problem when we manage the whole application, but most of third-party pro frameworks that I used (Telerik, DevExpress) are using the CurrentCulture to display my data in the correct format AND in the corresponding language.
So, even if I have my computer in English, I have my regional settings set to fr-CH, I will have all third party user controls in French.
I cannot set the CurrentCulture to a specific culture and set the format of my user controls to something else (I would loose my default format) and I can't let the CurrentCulture to be the default one because I would have my third party components in another language.
I tried to build my own culture (CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder), with no success. When I change the language, I still have my application in the user-specific language.
Concrete problem
I'm using a date editor(basic, it has one text input and can popup a calendar). I want to have the date displayed in my OS locale(ch-FR, so 15 january 2013 would be "15.01.2013"), but I don't want that when I display the calendar month/day name appears in french.
What is the correct approach with this?

Store the original CultureInfo for your purposes and try editing CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture properties of the CurrentThread property in System.Threading.Thread, maybe this will solve your problem.
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

I resolved my problem by having a custom culture info:
private static void UpdateCultureInfoWithoutLangage()
{
//We initialize a en-US cultureInfo and change all formats + number infor related
CultureInfo cultureInfoEn = new CultureInfo("en-US");
CultureInfo cultureInfoEnClone = (CultureInfo)cultureInfoEn.Clone();
//Setting DateTimeFormat(Without changing translations)
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.FirstDayOfWeek = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.FirstDayOfWeek;
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.FullDateTimePattern = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.FullDateTimePattern;
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.LongDatePattern = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.LongDatePattern;
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.LongTimePattern = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.LongTimePattern;
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.MonthDayPattern = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthDayPattern;
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern;
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.ShortTimePattern = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortTimePattern;
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.TimeSeparator = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.TimeSeparator;
cultureInfoEnClone.DateTimeFormat.YearMonthPattern = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.YearMonthPattern;
cultureInfoEnClone.NumberFormat = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cultureInfoEnClone;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = cultureInfoEnClone;
Application.CurrentCulture = cultureInfoEnClone;
}

Problem with changing language using CultureInfo

Language is not getting changed when we are giving specific culture like "fr-FR" through Resource File.please help me out of it if any one knows ,Thanks in advance.
CultureInfo cinfo = new CultureInfo("fr-FR");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cinfo;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = cinfo;
The below code indicate that accessing the value through resource1 file according to the culture .
_inboxpage.Text = Resource1.Ready;

The resource files need to have a special naming convention to work transparently with different culture information.
You create a separate resource file for each language that you want to support or for a language and culture. Have one separate neutral resource file for the application to fall back upon in case the required key/value pair is not found.
ex:
Resources.resx //neutral resource file
Resources.fr.resx //french specific file
Resources.fr-FR.resx //French language for France
and so on.
You can get more details here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo.aspx

Finally i got a solution that while doing Localization in Plugin Application we need to copy that culture folders like "fr-FR" to corresponding Main Application then it will works fine.