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XenoSophist	1 Apr, 2008 - 06:56 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 2 Oct, 2007 Posts: 36 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	I have a small SQL database that uses a column for money cost. I am using Visual C# to program the user interface. My problem is that the money datatype I used shows numbers to 4 decimal places. What do I need to change so that it my DataList in C# only displays 2 decimal places? This post has been edited by XenoSophist: 1 Apr, 2008 - 06:57 PM
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PsychoCoder	RE: Formatting Data Type 1 Apr, 2008 - 08:14 PM Post #2
using DIC.Core; Joined: 26 Jul, 2007 Posts: 9,483 Thanked: 161 times Dream Kudos: 9075 Expert In: VB, VB.Net, C#, SQL, ASP, ASP.Net, Web Development, HTML, CSS, Win32 API, Javascript, mySQL, J#, Boo.Net My Contributions	Well you could use ToString() and pass the {0:C} format to it like so csharp YourMoneyVariable.ToString("{0:C}"); You could also use String.Format() and pass the same format to it, something like csharp Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Dollar Value Is: {0:C}",YourMoneyVariable)); Hope that helps
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Martyr2	RE: Formatting Data Type 1 Apr, 2008 - 08:32 PM Post #3
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 5,660 Thanked: 314 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	You should be able to convert it to a string and simply format the string. I am not quite sure this is a database specific question or if you should be asking this in ASP.NET or not... but you could try CODE <%# String.Format("{0:c}", container.dataitem("columnwithmoney").ToString()) %> This may work. The trick here is that we just need to format the data as it is presented.
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