Read/Acess globalization section of system.web from web.config

To read web.config, and find any section there are number of solutions available, one such method to access globalization section which is under system.web of web.config is as follows:

In web.config i have

<globalization uiCulture="nl-NL" />

Now to read the uiculture in codebehind file in asp.net

string uicul = ((System.Web.Configuration.GlobalizationSection)(System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("system.web/globalization"))).UICulture;


Lets say for example i have to display date according to culture set in web.confg so:

public object GetDateCulture(object date)
{
string uicul = ((System.Web.Configuration.GlobalizationSection)(System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("system.web/globalization"))).UICulture;
System.IFormatProvider format = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(uicul, true);
date = Convert.ToDateTime(date).ToString("dd MMM yyyy", format);
return date;
}

Ouput will be:

if culture is english : 22 May 2009

if culture is dutch : 22 Mai 2009