How to change converter language parameter to culture info?

Question

I'm porting over some converters from Windows Phone to WinRT.  Here is a sample converter:

        public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
        {
            var resourceName = value.ToString() as string;
            return local.ResourceManager.GetString(resourceName, culture);
        }

        public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, string language)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }

If I change the System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture parameter to a string language parameter to make the Convert() call compatible with WinRT's IValueConverter interface, how do I convert the string language parameter to a System.Globalization.CultureInfo value the GetString() call understands?

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-- roschler

Answer 1

Build it from the CultureInfo(String) constructor?

Answer 2

Thanks Rob.  Sounds good but you posed your answer as a question.  Is there a possible shortfall to this approach?

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-- roschler

Answer 3

I was asking you why you didn't want to use the CultureInfo(String) constructor.

Answer 4

Hi

As Rob suggested you can use various culture specific formats.

CultureInfo deDe= new CultureInfo("de-De");

where you can specify the culture format based on country/region.

Regards                 

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Varun Ravindranath