DataFormatString Question #2 Forcing Currency Format

[Phillip Vong]

VS2005 and SQL2000

Have a column with Data Type "Float". Example, the value in the row could be
80025.36958
or
123.5
etc.

Using a Gridview, I want to force this column to return as currency.

1) I've tried {0:c}
This does absolutely nothing. Returns all the number as is.

2) I forced it to ruturn with ${0:c2}.
This will return the numbers with $ but does not round to 0.XX and if a
number does not have 0.XX like 123.5, then I only get $123.5 and I want to
get $123.50. Also, the 80025.36958 example from above returns as
$80025.336958. I want to make it seperate the thousands by comma. Basically,
I'm looking for the standard format of $80,025.37.

Can someone help?

Thanks!

Phil

 

[Mark Rae]

Can someone help?

{0:"#,##0.00"}

 

[Phillip Vong]

Mark,
Thanks for the reply, but that did not help at all. I'm still getting
results like 80025.336958.

Someone Please help. I'm doing this in VS2005.

 

[Mark Rae]

Mark,
Thanks for the reply, but that did not help at all. I'm still getting
results like 80025.336958.

Someone Please help. I'm doing this in VS2005.

Apologies - I didn't register the VS2005 bit...

In that case, you need to add HtmlEncode="false" into your HTML and all will
be well.

http://geekswithblogs.net/ensoftblog/archive/2005/11/02/58915.aspx

 

[Phillip Vong]

Mark, Thanks! You actually solved my problem by reminding me to make
HtmlEncode="False". I just left the format as {0:c} and everything worked.

Thanks!