How to create a custom culture?

Take the following steps to create a custom culture as follows:

1. Create the objects of CultureInfo, RegionInfo, and CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder classes as follows:

   Dim INculture As New CultureInfo(“en-IN”)
   Dim INregion As New RegionInfo(“en-IN”)
   Dim Demo As New CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder(“x-en-IN-sample”, _CultureAndRegionModifiers.None)

2. Add a NumberFormatInfo class object and set the properties as follows:

   Dim Numinfo As NumberFormatInfo()
   Numinfo.CurrencySymbol = “@”
   Numinfo.CurrencyDecimalDigits = 4
   Demo.NumberFormat = Numinfo

3. Add a DataTimeFormatInfo class object as follows:

   Dim Dateinfo As DateTimeFormatInfo = _New DateTimeFormatInfo()
   Dateinfo.DateSeperator = “/”
   Dateinfo.DayNames = New String() {“Sunday”, “Monday”, “Tuesday”, “Wednesday”, “Thursday”, “Friday”, “Satarday”}

4. Now, run the application.

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