I am new to Winforms development and I going to be displaying data to my users in a textbox. The textbox will be databound with data that is currency so I am trying to Format the value that is being displayed.
I looked at a Masked Text Box but that isn't exactly what I am looking for because it doesn't put the cents after the decimal.
Do I need to code for each textbox similar to this?
TextBox.Text = DataSet.DataView[0].Amount.ToString("c");
I have alot of textboxes that need to be formatted so I am wondering if I need to do this for each one. Does anyone have any suggestions?
You can create your own TextBox derived from standard one
public class TextBoxEx : TextBox
{
public string Format { get; set; }
private object datasource = new object();
public object Datasource
{
get { return datasource; }
set
{
datasource = value;
if (datasource == null)
base.Text = string.Empty;
else if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Format))
base.Text = datasource.ToString();
else
base.Text = string.Format("{0:"+ Format + "}",datasource);
}
}
}
Usage:
textbox.Format = "c";
textbox.Datasource = DataSet.DataView[0].Amount;
Imagine you have the total coming from a double variable such as mySumInvestment
and you want to place it a textbox with US Currency Format. Then this is something you could do
textBox5.Text = mySumInvestment.ToString("c", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US")); // In order to format as currency