Question

I think this should be a pretty easy question to answer but I can’t seem to figure it out.
I am adding text to labels from a sqldatasource in c#. All of that works, but I want to be able to format the text. I want to 1) be able to change the format to 0.00 (instead of a string of decimals) and I would also like to be able to add words before the text. I assume I need to somehow use the string.format command but can’t figure out how to work it in. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here’s my code below:

DataView dvSql = (DataView)DeskSummary.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty);
foreach (DataRowView drvSql in dvSql)
{

    Desk.Text = drvSql["Deskname"].ToString();                  
    MarginLabel.Text = drvSql["margin"].ToString();
    CurrentCI.Text = drvSql["comp_index_primarycomp"].ToString();
    WalMartCurrentCI.Text = drvSql["comp_index_walmart"].ToString();
    ForecastMargin.Text = drvSql["margin_forecast"].ToString();
    WalMartForecastCI.Text = drvSql["comp_index_walmart_forecast"].ToString();
    ForecastCI.Text = drvSql["comp_index_primarycomp_forecast"].ToString();
}

Answer 1

You can pass the format argument to the ToString() method like so:

MarginLabel.Text = drvSql["margin"].ToString("0.00");

However, as you said you wanted to prepend some text. Therefore, I recommend:

MarginLabel.Text = String.Format("Prepended text {0:0.00}", drvSql["margin"]);

Note: I just picked one of your labels; I’m not sure which ones get special formatting treatment.