AboutSyed Rizwan Muhammad Rizvi Expertise I can answers questions regarding web based and desktop based programming in VB.Net. Which can include SOAP, XML, Custom Controls, COM Interoperability etc.
Experience Have been working in this specific area for last 2 years previously I was a VB 6 Developer with experties in other languages as well. Total 10 years of programming experience.
I'm learning vb.net and am having a problem with formatting a number.
I have a form with a textbox that needs to be formatted when it is displayed. If I hardcode the value in my code it works however if I use the textbox it does not get formatted. Below is my code. Thanks.
This line does not format the number just puts it out as 112080812
Me.TextBox1.Text = Format("{0:##,###,##0}", Me.TextBox1.Text)
This line works if hard coded
Me.TextBox1.Text = String.Format("{0:##,###,##0}", 112080812)
Answer Formatting highly depends on the type of data that you are passing when you say Textbox1.text then you are acutally passing a string not a number. to work round that problem use the CINT or CDBL or VAL functions to convert your string to numeric datatype and then pass it to the format method e.g.:
