Question

I’d like to change the pricing column on my DataGridView based upon currency a user selected currency ComboBox.

Currently, the price column is formatted to ‘C2’. This defaults to look like ‘$1.00’.

However, if my user were to switch the currency to be Great British Pound, I’d like to display the Great British Pound sign (‘£’) rather than a dollar sign (‘$’) so the end result would be £1.00.

Any suggestions on how to change the culture of a DataGridView?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You are looking for System.Globalization. There is A BUNCH of different options…

If you want to just change it for that specific element:

   //Label example but theory is the same     [CultureInfo][2] ci = new CultureInfo('en-GB');     double myMoney = 100.00;     this.Label1.Text = myMoney.ToString('C2', ci); 

If you would like to change it for everything then you can

     //Will format everything      string strCulture = 'en-GB';//Session['culture'].ToString();      [CultureInfo][3] ci = new CultureInfo(strCulture);      Thread.CurrentThread.[CurrentCulture][4] = ci ;      Thread.CurrentThread.[CurrentUICulture][5] = ci;      double myMoney = 100.00;      this.Label1.Text = myMoney.ToString('C2'); 

In a DataGird if you are trying to format a databound row you will need to hook into the the onDataBound event and reformat that way, as I don’t believe you can pass the argument as:DataFormatString = ‘{0:c,en-GB}

Something like so should do the trick(not tested)

  protected void gridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)     {         //Define CultureInfo in page scope just put in example for reference         [CultureInfo][6] ci = new CultureInfo('en-GB');         if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)             ((Label)e.Row.FindControl('myMoney')).Text.ToString('C2', ci);    } 

OR

If you are Binding from a DataTable you can explicatlly set the DataTable Cultureinfo

CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo('en-GB'); myTable.Locale = ci; 

If you are looking for System wide cultural support(which I don’t think you are but is worth mentioning) then you can look at using resource files

Simple example would be:

ResourceManager rm = ResourceManager.CreateFileBasedResourceManager('resource', 'path to resouce files', null); this.Label1.Text = rm.GetString('name');