Change the Currency Symbol thoroughout the Applica

Question

I derive the controllers from a base class:

namespace merawi.Controllers
{
    public class BaseController : Controller
    {
        public CultureInfo trTR = new CultureInfo("tr-TR");

        public BaseController()
        {
            trTR.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol = "TL";
        }
    }
}

and use this statement to format the currencies:

ViewBag.SellingPrice = sp.ToString("C", trTR);

However, in the views which has viewmodels like

@model List<merawi.Models.DocumentWorkStep>

I need a way to format the currencies as desired.

SellingPrice is a decimal field in the DocumentWorkStep class:

public Nullable<decimal> SellingPrice { get; set; }

and using this

<td>@string.Format("{0:C}", res.SellingPrice)</td>

outputs ₺, I need "TL"

I need a way to access the trTR object from the view files...

Thanks

Answer 1

Add this to your web.config file, assuming that you want the same culture to be used in your entire application:

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <globalization uiCulture="tr-TR" culture="tr-TR" />
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Answer 2

In my case, I add the globalization tag in the web.config file, also, since we need to customize the culture format(such as using "." instead of "," as decimal in FR-CA), I add a customization in Global.asax.vb, which can set the globalization globally.

Web.config:

<globalization culture="fr-CA" uiCulture="fr-CA"/>

Global.asax.vb:

Private Sub MvcApplication_BeginRequest(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.BeginRequest
    StartSession()
    Dim  info as new Globalization.CultureInfo(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.ToString())
    info.NumberFormat.CurrencyDecimalSeparator = "."
    info.NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator = "."
    info.NumberFormat.PercentDecimalSeparator = "."
    info.NumberFormat.CurrencyGroupSeparator = ","
    info.NumberFormat.NumberGroupSeparator = ","
    info.NumberFormat.PercentGroupSeparator = ","
    info.NumberFormat.
    System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = info
End Sub

That's my case. Hopefully it helps. Thank you.