Formatting problem

[Brad]

I guess I still have not grasped the logic of formatting a simple label or
text box.

Why would the following not work? I need the resulting label to display
currency.

lblAmtDue.Text = CInt(txtEntries.Text) * 1.5

lblAmtDue.Text.Format("$#,##0.00")

 

[Phill. W]

I guess I still have not grasped the logic of formatting a simple label or
text box. .. . .
lblAmtDue.Text = CInt(txtEntries.Text) * 1.5

lblAmtDue.Text.Format("$#,##0.00")

This is what VB will effective do...

lblAmtDue.Text = ( CInt(txtEntries.Text) * 1.5 ).ToString()

Call lblAmtDue.Text.Format("$#,##0.00")

I think what you need is

lblAmtDue.Text = ( CInt( txtEntries.Text ) * 1.5 ).ToString("$#,##0.00")

and I'd /strongly/ recommend adding

Option Strict On

either as a Project [default] setting or at the top of the Module.

HTH,
Phill W.

 

[Greg Burns]

Try the Format function...

lblAmtDue.Text = Format(CInt(txtEntries.Text) * 1.5, "$#,##0.00")

or better yet

use FormatCurrency function

Greg

 

[Shiva]

Apply formatting on the integer itself.

lblAmtDue.Text = (CInt(txtEntries.Text) * 1.5).ToString("$#,##0.00")

I guess I still have not grasped the logic of formatting a simple label or
text box.

Why would the following not work? I need the resulting label to display
currency.

lblAmtDue.Text = CInt(txtEntries.Text) * 1.5

lblAmtDue.Text.Format("$#,##0.00")

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Why would the following not work? I need the resulting label to display
currency.

..NET Framework Developer's Guide -- Standard Numeric Format Strings
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconStandardNumericFormatStrings.asp>

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Brad,
As the others have suggested, Text.Format is a function that returns a value
that is formatted, you are ignoring that value.

Rather then hard code the format to US dollars, I would use "C" a standard
format specifier for currency in region you are in.

I would recommend something like:

lblAmtDue.Text = (CInt(txtEntries.Text) * 1.5).ToString("C")

Which says take the integer value of txtEntries.Text, multiply that by 1.5,
convert the result of the multiplication to a string using the currency
format, then assign this formatted string to the Text property of lblAmtDue.

For details on Formatting in .NET see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...n-us/cpguide/html/cpconformattingoverview.asp

For standard numeric format strings (such as "C") see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...de/html/cpconstandardnumericformatstrings.asp


I would also strongly recommend you include Option Strict On at the top of
your source files to avoid implicit conversions from Double to Text.

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Brad,

Because Greg is all alone in this thread, I find this one real very nice

txtEntries.Text = FormatCurrency( CDec(txtEntries.Text)* 1.5)

Cor