"bhughes10" <bhughe***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I saw a question from Norman Yuan several months back with the same problem
> I'm having now. Never saw an answer.
> My currency that should be displayed as $200.00 is displayed as ¤200.00
> randomly  when my production server is under load. It doesn't happen on
> the
> dev computers. An IIS reset temp fixes it but soon returns.
>
> I'm running ASP.NET app, .NET 1.1, developed on VS.NET2003. Windows Server
> 2003 Std. with latest SP, IIS6.0
>

"Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]" wrote:

> Norman Yuan wrote:
> > Still no solution here. Originally, I though it could have something
> > to do with our incapable server (PIII700Hz, 512MB, running Win2003
> > IIS6 and SQL Server2000 on the same box). But after upgrading to a
> > brand new, powerful server, the problem is still there. The $ sign
> > randomly changed, but not alway on the same web page. That is,
> > browsing the same page with different query string parameters, the $
> > sign sometimes is OK, sometimes is not.
> > Very frustrated with no cause found.
>
> This is caused by something running on a threadpool thread that changed the
> default locale.  We ran into this issue with an ASP.NET application as well
> and through trial and error identified another ASP.NET application running
> in the same app pool that was changing the locale to German for some reason.
>
> There are two approaches you can take that might help:
>
> 1. Explicitly specify your intended locale (i.e. IFormatProvider) every
> where you convert numbers to strings.
> 2. Separate all applications into their own completely isolated application
> pools to keep locale changes from one application from "leaking" into
> another.
>
> -cd
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