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  PureWeen

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  setting the culture of dataformatstring

  May 05, 2006 07:39 PM|LINK

  Alright so I have a website that's in 2 languages

  French and English..
  
  I need to ALWAYS display the currency in French Canadian though. Regardless of what the website is set to.....
  
  Right now I set the DataFormatString = "{0:c}" on boundfields which will format the string according to the currenty Culture settings. Is there a way to specify a culture on that like?

  DataFormatString = "{0:c,fr-ca}"????

  Currently the way I do it is that I have a derived control MYBoundfield
  
  I added a property called Culture and I  override the FormatDataValue method....

   

  protected override string FormatDataValue(object dataValue, bool encode)

  {

  string formattedString = base.FormatDataValue(dataValue,encode);

  if (this.DataFormatString != null && this.DataFormatString.Length > 0 && Culture != null)

  {

  object[] args = { dataValue };

  formattedString = String.Format(new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(Culture, false), this.DataFormatString, args);

  }

  return formattedString;

  }