Currency Formatting

[Vlad]

Hi,

I am trying to display a currency value formated according to the current
culture in ASP.NET:
decimal x = 125345.54M;
string currencyString = String.Format("{0:c}",x);
what gets retured is 125,345.54 without the currency symbol of $

I checked and re-checked my regional settings and tried it on other PCs
without success...

When I put a breakpoint and view the following in the Immediate window I see
that the AnsiCurrencySymbol is null and the CurrencySymbol is "" for some
reason:
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCultu re.NumberFormat

{System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}

System.Object: {System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}
ansiCurrencySymbol: null
AnsiCurrencySymbol: null
CurrencyDecimalDigits: 2
currencyDecimalDigits: 2
CurrencyDecimalSeparator: "."
currencyDecimalSeparator: "."
currencyGroupSeparator: ","
CurrencyGroupSeparator: ","
CurrencyGroupSizes: {Length=1}
currencyGroupSizes: {Length=1}
CurrencyNegativePattern: 0
currencyNegativePattern: 0
CurrencyPositivePattern: 0
currencyPositivePattern: 0
CurrencySymbol: ""
currencySymbol: ""
CurrentInfo: {System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}
InvariantInfo: {System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}
invariantInfo: {System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}
IsReadOnly: false
isReadOnly: false
m_dataItem: 41
m_useUserOverride: true
NaNSymbol: "NaN"
nanSymbol: "NaN"
negativeInfinitySymbol: "-Infinity"
NegativeInfinitySymbol: "-Infinity"
NegativeSign: "-"
negativeSign: "-"
NumberDecimalDigits: 2
numberDecimalDigits: 2
NumberDecimalSeparator: "."
numberDecimalSeparator: "."
NumberGroupSeparator: ","
numberGroupSeparator: ","
NumberGroupSizes: {Length=1}
numberGroupSizes: {Length=1}
numberNegativePattern: 1
NumberNegativePattern: 1
PercentDecimalDigits: 2
percentDecimalDigits: 2
percentDecimalSeparator: "."
PercentDecimalSeparator: "."
PercentGroupSeparator: ","
percentGroupSeparator: ","
percentGroupSizes: {Length=1}
PercentGroupSizes: {Length=1}
PercentNegativePattern: 0
percentNegativePattern: 0
percentPositivePattern: 0
PercentPositivePattern: 0
percentSymbol: "%"
PercentSymbol: "%"
PerMilleSymbol: "?"
perMilleSymbol: "?"
PositiveInfinitySymbol: "Infinity"
positiveInfinitySymbol: "Infinity"
positiveSign: "+"
PositiveSign: "+"
validForParseAsCurrency: true
validForParseAsNumber: true

I thought that the CurrentCultureInfo takes its information from the
regional settings of the PC...

Please help!

Thanks,

Vlad

[Vlad]

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Hi,

I am trying to display a currency value formated according to the current
culture in ASP.NET:
decimal x = 125345.54M;
string currencyString = String.Format("{0:c}",x);
what gets retured is 125,345.54 without the currency symbol of $

I checked and re-checked my regional settings and tried it on other PCs
without success...

When I put a breakpoint and view the following in the Immediate window I see that the AnsiCurrencySymbol is null and the CurrencySymbol is "" for some
reason:
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCultu re.NumberFormat

{System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}

System.Object: {System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}
ansiCurrencySymbol: null
AnsiCurrencySymbol: null
CurrencyDecimalDigits: 2
currencyDecimalDigits: 2
CurrencyDecimalSeparator: "."
currencyDecimalSeparator: "."
currencyGroupSeparator: ","
CurrencyGroupSeparator: ","
CurrencyGroupSizes: {Length=1}
currencyGroupSizes: {Length=1}
CurrencyNegativePattern: 0
currencyNegativePattern: 0
CurrencyPositivePattern: 0
currencyPositivePattern: 0
CurrencySymbol: ""
currencySymbol: ""
CurrentInfo: {System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}
InvariantInfo: {System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}
invariantInfo: {System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo}
IsReadOnly: false
isReadOnly: false
m_dataItem: 41
m_useUserOverride: true
NaNSymbol: "NaN"
nanSymbol: "NaN"
negativeInfinitySymbol: "-Infinity"
NegativeInfinitySymbol: "-Infinity"
NegativeSign: "-"
negativeSign: "-"
NumberDecimalDigits: 2
numberDecimalDigits: 2
NumberDecimalSeparator: "."
numberDecimalSeparator: "."
NumberGroupSeparator: ","
numberGroupSeparator: ","
NumberGroupSizes: {Length=1}
numberGroupSizes: {Length=1}
numberNegativePattern: 1
NumberNegativePattern: 1
PercentDecimalDigits: 2
percentDecimalDigits: 2
percentDecimalSeparator: "."
PercentDecimalSeparator: "."
PercentGroupSeparator: ","
percentGroupSeparator: ","
percentGroupSizes: {Length=1}
PercentGroupSizes: {Length=1}
PercentNegativePattern: 0
percentNegativePattern: 0
percentPositivePattern: 0
PercentPositivePattern: 0
percentSymbol: "%"
PercentSymbol: "%"
PerMilleSymbol: "?"
perMilleSymbol: "?"
PositiveInfinitySymbol: "Infinity"
positiveInfinitySymbol: "Infinity"
positiveSign: "+"
PositiveSign: "+"
validForParseAsCurrency: true
validForParseAsNumber: true

I thought that the CurrentCultureInfo takes its information from the
regional settings of the PC...

Please help!

Thanks,

Vlad

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Vlad,

I'm viewing the post and find it is a duplicated one with another in the
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet group,
I've posted my reply and provided my suggestion there. Would you have a
look.
Also, if you still have any question, please feel free to post there.
Thanks.
Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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