Namespace: System.Globalization

The System.Globalization namespace contains classes that define culture-related information, including the language, the country/region, the calendars in use, the format patterns for dates, currency, and numbers, and the sort order for strings.

Members of System.Globalization Namespace

Classes

Class	Description
class Calendar	Represents time in divisions, such as weeks, months, and years.
class CompareInfo	Implements a set of methods for culture-sensitive string comparisons.
class CultureInfo	Represents information about a specific culture including the names of the culture, the writing system, and the calendar used, as well as access to culture-specific objects that provide methods for common operations, such as formatting dates and sorting strings.
class DateTimeFormatInfo	Defines how DateTime values are formatted and displayed, depending on the culture.
class DaylightTime	Defines the period of daylight-saving time.
class GregorianCalendar	Represents the Gregorian calendar.
class HebrewCalendar	Represents the Hebrew calendar.
class HijriCalendar	Represents the Hijri calendar.
class JapaneseCalendar	Represents the Japanese calendar.
class JulianCalendar	Represents the Julian calendar.
class KoreanCalendar	Represents the Korean calendar.
class NumberFormatInfo	Defines how numeric values are formatted and displayed, depending on the culture.
class RegionInfo	Contains information about the country/region.
class SortKey	Maps strings to their sort keys.
class StringInfo	Provides functionality to split a string into text elements and to iterate through those text elements.
class TaiwanCalendar	Represents the Taiwan Calendar.
class TextElementEnumerator	Enumerates the text elements of a string.
class TextInfo	Defines properties and behaviors, such as casing, that are specific to a writing system.
class ThaiBuddhistCalendar	Represents the Thai Buddhist calendar.

Enumerations

Enumeration	Description
enumeration CalendarWeekRule	Defines different rules for determining the first week of the year.
enumeration CompareOptions	Defines the string comparison options to use with CompareInfo.
enumeration CultureTypes	Defines the types of culture lists that can be retrieved using CultureInfo.GetCultures.
enumeration DateTimeStyles	Defines the formatting options that customize how the DateTime.Parse and DateTime.ParseExact methods parse a string.
enumeration GregorianCalendarTypes	Defines the different language versions of the Gregorian calendar.
enumeration NumberStyles	Determines the styles permitted in numeric string arguments that are passed to the methods of the numeric base type classes.
enumeration UnicodeCategory	Defines the Unicode category of a character.