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I am from the Netherlands and have develloped a windows forms application in VB.NET. The most keyboards in the Netherlands can switch between English en Dutch (Alt+Shift in Windows XP for instance). When I use an Office program it automatically switches to Dutch. I can use the numeric keypad for input.

In my Windows application however it keeps English. Thus I cannot use the numeric key pad because it generates a dot as a decimal point, where a comma is the standard in Dutch.

By the way my cultural settings are Oke (dates, currency, weekdays, etc.) it's just the keyboard layout that persists in English.

Question: How to switch the keyboard to Dutch programatically.

[680 byte] By [codefund.com] at [2007-12-16]
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The following functions will change the keyboard language programmatically:

To Dutch:
InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage =InputLanguage.FromCulture(new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("nl"));

To Dutch - Belgium:
InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage =InputLanguage.FromCulture(new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("nl-BE"));

To Dutch - The Netherlands:
InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage =InputLanguage.FromCulture(new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("nl-BE"));

Back To English:
InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage =InputLanguage.FromCulture(new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en"));

Back To English - United States:
InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage =InputLanguage.FromCulture(new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"));

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