Problem resolved.  This was issue with out master pages overriding culture after InitilizeCulture() methods ran.

Once that was fixed, IG controls and grid worked fine.

Forgot to page scriptmanager:

<ig13:WebScriptManager id="sm" runat="server" EnableScriptGlobalization="true" EnableScriptLocalization="true"></ig13:WebScriptManager>

I have it set up as you mentioned in this thread, but my webdatagrid ignores all globalization settings,

I have my webscirptmanager as:

and for my code behind:

  protected override void InitializeCulture()
  {
      string cultureCode = IFContext.UserPreferences.Settings.Culture;
      cultureCode = "hi-IN"; //this is overridden and hard coded for  test reason

      //below is read-only so have to use CreateSpecificCultre instead
      //this.Culture = cultureCode;
      //this.UICulture = cultureCode;

      System.Globalization.CultureInfo cultr = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(cultureCode);
      System.Globalization.CultureInfo cultUI = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(cultureCode);

      cultr.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol = string.Empty;
      cultUI.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol = string.Empty;

      System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cultr;
      System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = cultUI;
      base.InitializeCulture();
  }

for IG fields I set culcture as:

    fldCFTotal.Culture = CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture;

For lablels I use format as:

    lbl_BS_BMV.Text = String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture, "{0:C}", ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["Market_Value"]);

The all the fields work, but webdatagrid does not show any globalized formatting for currency, numbers or dates.  For example I still see currency symbol in the grid columns but not in the fields.

The columns have dataformat properties set up as DataFormatString="{0:C}".  What am I missing?

No, everything should work off of the ScriptManager. If you can post a small example of what you are doing we can review it here. Thanks.

@Alex Kartavov:

I tried what you said and it did not work for me. I have the WebDataGrid inside an UpdatePanel so I do not know if this can be the be reason.

Does the WebDatasGrid have any property to set the culture info?

Thans a lot