Tag: threading

This post discusses how to determine a user's locale in C#. For ASP.NET applications, the Request.UserLanguages array provides the user's preferred languages, with the first element being the primary locale. This can be used to set the thread's culture using CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(). In Windows Forms or services, the current culture can be accessed via Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture and several properties like TwoLetterISOLanguageName or DisplayName allow retrieval of locale information.

I've had people come to my blog searching for how to do threading in JavaScript. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do true threading in JavaScript. The closest solution I've found involves creating queues that hold work items. Every 250ms (or a developer-defined interval), the queue checks if work needs to be done and starts a task if none is already running. This approach mimics threading. Check out my AJAX Tagger 2.0 for a working example. If you have any insights on true threading in JavaScript, I'd love to hear them!