How to check exists culture in .NET

Question

I have this code, when I try to get not existed culture I get exception.
Is there exists method like TryGetCultureInfo, which return bool val

Answer 1

No, AFAIK is not possible. You can check first if the culture exists and in that case get it.

The following code shows how to do it:

    private static CultureInfo GetCulture(string name)
    {
        if (!CultureExists(name)) return null;

        return CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(name);
    }

    private static bool CultureExists(string name)
    {
        CultureInfo[] availableCultures =
            CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures);

        foreach (CultureInfo culture in availableCultures)
        {
            if (culture.Name.Equals(name))
                return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

Hope it helps