C# Language Tutorial => Using Dispose Syntax to define custom scope

Example

For some use cases, you can use the using syntax to help define a custom scope. For example, you can define the following class to execute code in a specific culture.

public class CultureContext : IDisposable
{
    private readonly CultureInfo originalCulture;

    public CultureContext(string culture)
    {
        originalCulture = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(culture);
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = originalCulture;
    }
}

You can then use use this class to define blocks of code that execute in a specific culture.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

using (new CultureContext("nl-NL"))
{
    // Code in this block uses the "nl-NL" culture
    Console.WriteLine(new DateTime(2016, 12, 25)); // Output: 25-12-2016 00:00:00
}

using (new CultureContext("es-ES"))
{        
    // Code in this block uses the "es-ES" culture
    Console.WriteLine(new DateTime(2016, 12, 25)); // Output: 25/12/2016 0:00:00
}

// Reverted back to the original culture
Console.WriteLine(new DateTime(2016, 12, 25)); // Output: 12/25/2016 12:00:00 AM

Note: as we don't use the CultureContext instance we create, we don't assign a variable for it.

This technique is used by the BeginForm helper in ASP.NET MVC.

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