Different culture settings between IIS and ASP.NET’s Development Server

A few years ago I’ve stumbled on a very annoying scenario on my machine: I had used ASP.NET’s development server (the web server that pops up when debugging web applications in Visual Studio) while developing a web application and when I moved my web application to my local IIS, suddenly the culture of the thread changed from my local culture (he-IL) to a Greek culture (el-GR). This was a few