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bhughes10 - 29 Sep 2006 00:51 GMT

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

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Norman Yuan - 29 Sep 2006 15:18 GMT

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.

>I saw a question from Norman Yuan several months back with the same problem
> I'm having now. Never saw an answer.
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> I'm running ASP.NET app, .NET 1.1, developed on VS.NET2003. Windows Server
> 2003 Std. with latest SP, IIS6.0

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Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] - 29 Sep 2006 16:34 GMT

> Still no solution here. Originally, I though it could have something
> to do with our incapable server (PIII700Hz, 512MB, running Win2003
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> 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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bhughes10 - 04 Oct 2006 12:43 GMT

It's been 2 days with heavy loads on my server and no problems. I took your
suggestion and created a new application pool for the site. Thanks Carl.

> > Still no solution here. Originally, I though it could have something
> > to do with our incapable server (PIII700Hz, 512MB, running Win2003
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>
> -cd

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