TypeConverters with en-US machines with customized cultures
XAML has a major problem in v3 that we’ve addressed with a hotfix last year and .NET 4 includes the fix as well.
From KB 968227 article:
Consider the following scenario:
- You have a computer that uses the English (United States) regional settings.
- In the Regional and Language Options item in Control Panel, you customize the List separator character in Customize Regional Options dialog box .
- You create a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application.
- The application creates a CultureInfo object for the English (United States) culture before WPF starts rendering.
When you start the application, an exception is thrown by the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) parser, and then the application crashes.
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