Hi,
I have some trouble with formatting a datecolumn in Excel. At first I
export the datefields from a SQL-Database (without problems!). The
exported columns look like this:
24.04.2005 00:00:00
Afterwards I'm trying to format the date like DD MMM YYYY (e.g. 24 Apr
2005). This works fine... but the abbreviations (shortcuts) of the
months are always german. I need the english version. For example:
German: Okt / English: Oct
German: Mrz / English: Mar
German: Dez / English: Dec
I already tried
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCultu re =
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCul ture("en-US")
but it seems to have no effect.

I'm using MS Visual Studio 2003 with MS Excel 9.0 Object Library.
I'm having MS Excel 2000 installed on my machine.
Here's the code I'm using (only the relevant part):

================================================== ================='Set
CultureInfo
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCultu re =
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCul ture("en-US")

Dim xlApp As New Excel.Application
Dim xlBook As Excel.Workbook

xlApp.Visible = False

'Open Workbook
xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\Test.xls")


xlBook.Worksheets("Test").columns("A:A").Select()

xlApp.Selection.Numberformat = "DD MMM YYYY"


'Save Workbook
xlBook.Save()

'Quit excel
xlBook.Close(SaveChanges:=True)
xlApp.Quit()
xlBook = Nothing
xlApp = Nothing
================================================== =================


Hopefuly someone has some experience in this. Thanks in advance

Cheers Alex