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How is everyone formatting currency with VB.NET?



Before I was calling the API function for it, which took the currency

symbol from the Windows settings. I've found this to be limited when

working with European countries where business in conducted in several

different currencies. Are you guys just storing a currency symbol and

formatting the number accordingly? What about the comma and decimal

switch that some locales use?



I hope .NET makes this easy for me! :-)



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I would say you are better off storing a list of currency codes, symbols,

and decimal places for each currency. I don't think windows settings can

keep up with different currencies, what countries are using which ones, etc.



This also means, that when whatever after .NET comes out, your port will be

easy. You won't have to figure out how to do this in some other framework.



"Mitchell Vincent" <mvincent@newsgroup.nospam>wrote in message



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Mitchell.



The currency difference in the States in Europe is now probably not more

than in America.The oldest 6 EU states plus Ireland, Greece, Spain,

Portugal, Finland, and Austria use the Euro.



In the local settings of the computer are the currencies, and when you do it

right you have almost nothing to do.



There are only two states in Europe that uses a point as decimal point

separator the UK and Ireland. (The same as in America, beside all the States

of the US and English speaking Canada).



However normally there is nothing to do for it, it is a part of the Net and

the OS.



Look for it especially to the overloading ToString and the numberformatinfo



http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemglobalizationnumberformatinfoclasstopic.asp



I hope this helps,



Cor



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Mitchell Vincent wrote:

For future reference :



Dim Price as Double = 10.00



Debug.Writeline(String.Format("{0:c}", Price)



Does it!



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Hi



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