Currency class

[Eric]

Java has this. Anyone know of a .Net equivalent?

Thanks,
Eric

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Java has this. Anyone know of a .Net equivalent?

What part of Currency do you need? Using a NumberFormatInfo object along
with the culture of choice will get you some of the functionality. Here is
an example of some of the values available:

NumberFormatInfo nf = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat;
int fractionDigits = nf.CurrencyDecimalDigits;
string symbol = nf.CurrencySymbol;
string groupSeparator = nf.CurrencyGroupSeparator;
string decimalSeparator = nf.CurrencyDecimalSeparator;

I don't believe there is anything in .NET that will give you the currency
code.

Create a CultureInfo object for the culture of your choice if you want one
other than the current culture (ex: CultureInfo ci = new
CultureInfo("en-GB"). You can use the NumberFormatInfo object in calls to
Parse and Format methods on your numeric objects (int, decimal, double,
etc).

 

[Tom Porterfield]

What part of Currency do you need? Using a NumberFormatInfo object along
with the culture of choice will get you some of the functionality. Here
is an example of some of the values available:

NumberFormatInfo nf = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat;
int fractionDigits = nf.CurrencyDecimalDigits;
string symbol = nf.CurrencySymbol;
string groupSeparator = nf.CurrencyGroupSeparator;
string decimalSeparator = nf.CurrencyDecimalSeparator;

I don't believe there is anything in .NET that will give you the currency
code.

Create a CultureInfo object for the culture of your choice if you want one
other than the current culture (ex: CultureInfo ci = new
CultureInfo("en-GB"). You can use the NumberFormatInfo object in calls
to Parse and Format methods on your numeric objects (int, decimal, double,
etc).

The currency code is available in the RegionInfo class.

RegionInfo ri = new RegionInfo(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.LCID);
string currencyCode = ri.ISOCurrencySymbol;

 

[Eric]

It really is the currency code I'm after - I want to build a Money class
along the lines of Fowler's pattern. So what I would ideally like is an
enumeration of all the currency codes net knows about, anyone of which could
be an attribute of a given Money instance.

I found the RegionInfo.IsoCurrencyCode property, but couldn't figure out how
to get an enumeration out of it. If we had a class like Java's Currency I'd
have enough of the values and type safety I'm looking for.

Thanks,
Eric

 

[Tom Porterfield]

It really is the currency code I'm after - I want to build a Money class
along the lines of Fowler's pattern. So what I would ideally like is an
enumeration of all the currency codes net knows about, anyone of which could
be an attribute of a given Money instance.

I found the RegionInfo.IsoCurrencyCode property, but couldn't figure out how
to get an enumeration out of it. If we had a class like Java's Currency I'd
have enough of the values and type safety I'm looking for.

It would be tough, and not like java. You can get all the cultures by
accessing CultureInfo[] CultureInfo.GetCultures(). You would then need to
build a RegionInfo object from each CultureInfo in the array and then get
the ISOCurrencySymbol.

 

[Eric]

Thanks Tom - that is pretty much what did the trick

It really is the currency code I'm after - I want to build a Money class
along the lines of Fowler's pattern. So what I would ideally like is an
enumeration of all the currency codes net knows about, anyone of which
could
be an attribute of a given Money instance.

I found the RegionInfo.IsoCurrencyCode property, but couldn't figure out
how
to get an enumeration out of it. If we had a class like Java's Currency
I'd
have enough of the values and type safety I'm looking for.

It would be tough, and not like java. You can get all the cultures by
accessing CultureInfo[] CultureInfo.GetCultures(). You would then need to
build a RegionInfo object from each CultureInfo in the array and then get
the ISOCurrencySymbol.