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   8 <h2>Namespace: System.Globalization</h2>
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  11 <p> The  <a href="../System.Globalization/System.Globalization.html">System.Globalization</a> 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.</p>
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  14 <h3>Members of System.Globalization Namespace</h3><b>Classes</b><dl>
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  18 <th bgcolor="#C0C0C0">Class</th>
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  20                                                         Description
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  24 <td width="30%"><a href="types/Calendar.html">class Calendar</a></td>
  25 <td width="60%"> Represents time in divisions, such as weeks, months, and years.
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  29 <td width="30%"><a href="types/CompareInfo.html">class CompareInfo</a></td>
  30 <td width="60%"> Implements a set of methods for culture-sensitive string comparisons.
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  34 <td width="30%"><a href="types/CultureInfo.html">class CultureInfo</a></td>
  35 <td width="60%"> 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.
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  39 <td width="30%"><a href="types/DateTimeFormatInfo.html">class DateTimeFormatInfo</a></td>
  40 <td width="60%"> Defines how  <a href="../System/types/DateTime.html">DateTime</a> values are formatted and displayed, depending on the culture.
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  44 <td width="30%"><a href="types/DaylightTime.html">class DaylightTime</a></td>
  45 <td width="60%"> Defines the period of daylight-saving time.
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  49 <td width="30%"><a href="types/GregorianCalendar.html">class GregorianCalendar</a></td>
  50 <td width="60%"> Represents the Gregorian calendar.
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  54 <td width="30%"><a href="types/HebrewCalendar.html">class HebrewCalendar</a></td>
  55 <td width="60%"> Represents the Hebrew calendar.
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  59 <td width="30%"><a href="types/HijriCalendar.html">class HijriCalendar</a></td>
  60 <td width="60%"> Represents the Hijri calendar.
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  64 <td width="30%"><a href="types/JapaneseCalendar.html">class JapaneseCalendar</a></td>
  65 <td width="60%"> Represents the Japanese calendar.
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  69 <td width="30%"><a href="types/JulianCalendar.html">class JulianCalendar</a></td>
  70 <td width="60%"> Represents the Julian calendar.
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  74 <td width="30%"><a href="types/KoreanCalendar.html">class KoreanCalendar</a></td>
  75 <td width="60%"> Represents the Korean calendar.
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  79 <td width="30%"><a href="types/NumberFormatInfo.html">class NumberFormatInfo</a></td>
  80 <td width="60%"> Defines how numeric values are formatted and displayed, depending on the culture.
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  84 <td width="30%"><a href="types/RegionInfo.html">class RegionInfo</a></td>
  85 <td width="60%"> Contains information about the country/region.
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  89 <td width="30%"><a href="types/SortKey.html">class SortKey</a></td>
  90 <td width="60%"> Maps strings to their sort keys.
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  94 <td width="30%"><a href="types/StringInfo.html">class StringInfo</a></td>
  95 <td width="60%"> Provides functionality to split a string into text elements and to iterate through those text elements.
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  99 <td width="30%"><a href="types/TaiwanCalendar.html">class TaiwanCalendar</a></td>
 100 <td width="60%"> Represents the Taiwan Calendar.
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 104 <td width="30%"><a href="types/TextElementEnumerator.html">class TextElementEnumerator</a></td>
 105 <td width="60%"> Enumerates the text elements of a string.
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 109 <td width="30%"><a href="types/TextInfo.html">class TextInfo</a></td>
 110 <td width="60%"> Defines properties and behaviors, such as casing, that are specific to a writing system.
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 114 <td width="30%"><a href="types/ThaiBuddhistCalendar.html">class ThaiBuddhistCalendar</a></td>
 115 <td width="60%"> Represents the Thai Buddhist calendar.
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 130 <td width="30%"><a href="types/CalendarWeekRule.html">enumeration CalendarWeekRule</a></td>
 131 <td width="60%"> Defines different rules for determining the first week of the year.
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 135 <td width="30%"><a href="types/CompareOptions.html">enumeration CompareOptions</a></td>
 136 <td width="60%"> Defines the string comparison options to use with  <a href="../System.Globalization/types/CompareInfo.html">CompareInfo</a>.
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 140 <td width="30%"><a href="types/CultureTypes.html">enumeration CultureTypes</a></td>
 141 <td width="60%"> Defines the types of culture lists that can be retrieved using  <a href="#GetCultures(System.Globalization.CultureTypes)">CultureInfo.GetCultures</a>.
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 145 <td width="30%"><a href="types/DateTimeStyles.html">enumeration DateTimeStyles</a></td>
 146 <td width="60%"> Defines the formatting options that customize how the  <a href="../System/types/DateTime.html#Parse(System.String)">DateTime.Parse</a> and  <a href="../System/types/DateTime.html#ParseExact(System.String,System.String,System.IFormatProvider)">DateTime.ParseExact</a> methods parse a string.
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 150 <td width="30%"><a href="types/GregorianCalendarTypes.html">enumeration GregorianCalendarTypes</a></td>
 151 <td width="60%"> Defines the different language versions of the Gregorian calendar.
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 155 <td width="30%"><a href="types/NumberStyles.html">enumeration NumberStyles</a></td>
 156 <td width="60%"> Determines the styles permitted in numeric string arguments that are passed to the  methods of the numeric base type classes.
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 160 <td width="30%"><a href="types/UnicodeCategory.html">enumeration UnicodeCategory</a></td>
 161 <td width="60%"> Defines the Unicode category of a character.
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