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I have been doing some winform development using .NET 2.0. With all the talk about globalization and having seen it work with ASP.NET I assumed that winforms will also support localization fully. But I was in for a surprise. Looks like the Calendar control (and date time picker) in winforms talks only the control panel regional setting and completely ignores the .NET Culture setting.

How much more idiotic can it get.. I have a fully localized UI, with calender control alone being out of sync with the UI...

Some googling around and with Deepak's help found this blog post by Mike Kaplan on this problem. So win 32 has a problem so winforms too has a problem. If the ASP.NET guys can do it right, why can't the winforms team??

I found that someone had posted this as a bug in the product feedback center and it was closed as by design..huh!!
Go and vote for this, if you too have a problem with the idiotic behavior of the Calendar control and we can see if that forces the winforms team to fix it up.