Do you use the formating also when displaying the values in the UI?
If not, is it possible to defer the formating right before writing the
*value* to the db?
At that point it is known (is it?) to which db field you are going to write to.
Currently it seems you are coupling the format information
Thanks for the feedback. I have looked at the IFormatProvider and it will
work for what I am doing. However, it's not the problem that I am having. The
problem that I am having is finding a place to store the format string for each
variable I declare. I could pass it into my function. That
Sorry, wrong links and interface name.
I MEANT IFormatProvider
http://rajkwatra.blogspot.com/2007/05/custom-string-formatting-in-net.html
Marc
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Marc Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe you should consider building some custom formatters that
> implement IFor
Maybe you should consider building some custom formatters that
implement IFormatter
http://geekswithblogs.net/luskan/archive/2007/07/16/113956.aspx
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I am thinking that maybe you can use CultureInfo for what you are trying to
do, either by settings directly the properties on the current culture, or
creating a new one and setting it as current. That way, you can control what
is the default format for numbers, dates, etc. Just another way to look
Thanks for all of the suggestions of using extension for this. That really
helps but it leaves one issue still remaining. I can use the extensions to
apply the format. That works well using extensions. But now I need to pull
in the format string as well from somewhere. I have stored them in a
Exactly. That is what it is in .Net, but not in other languages. In other
languages you store the format within the data type. So I'm just trying to
figure out good way to keep track of the format as well.
I can keep track of the format in a little array. Then look up the format
when the varia
