Currency Formatter in Gridview

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Hello please

I'm making a website and i need to display the right currency format on the boundfield data coming from a database.The currency i want to display with the numbers is the Nigeria Naira. I was able to achieved this with code from code behind doing this:

VB

Imports System.Globalization
Dim bz As New CultureInfo("HA-LATN-NG")
str &= Convert.ToDouble(reader.Item("Total Amount")).ToString("c", bz)

Doing the above makes the variable str to be formatted in the Nigerian Naira.

The problem is how do i do the same with data on a gridview that is coming from a datasource in a database. I have tried setting the dataformatstring property to{"c",bz) but it does not work.
The gridview am using is not created programmatically.I drag it fro the table design unto the web page.so please how can i set the locale property.Assuming it was declared programmatically i would have been able to set the locale property of a datatable before binding to the gridview.How do i do this with a gridview that was dragged from table designer unto a webpage.Please help me out this has been giving me sleepless night.
Please help a novice programmer out.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 23-Aug-12 2:58am

jamiebones

Updated 25-Aug-12 8:19am

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ZurdoDev 23-Aug-12 9:44am

If you set the DataFormatString to C it should work but you also have to set the culture on every postback, not just once.

Kenneth Haugland 23-Aug-12 10:05am

Is this WinForms, WPF ASP.NET or or or?

jamiebones 23-Aug-12 13:11pm

It is an asp website application

Kenneth Haugland 23-Aug-12 15:46pm

Are you binding the values to the datatable, if so you could always use a converter in the binding

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Sandip.Nascar · Answer 1 · 2012-08-23T10:06:00

You need to set the culture to the datatable.

DataTable.Locale Property

So, before you set the datasource, you set the culture to datatable and then assign the datatable to gridview.

Sample code

DataTable table = new DataTable();
// Create a new CultureInfo
CultureInfo currentCultureInfo = new CultureInfo("en-gb");
table.Locale = currentCultureInfo;

Hope this helps.
cheers

jamiebones · Answer 2 · 2012-08-27T06:11:00

Solution 2

I use the gridview rowdatabound event.I did this and it works
If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
e.Row.Cells(3).Text = Double.Parse(e.Row.Cells(3).Text).ToString("C", bz)

Posted 27-Aug-12 6:11am