I want to use data format string in grid view for salary column in ASP .NET

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it Dosent Showing any $ symbol
cultural on my machine is en-US

What I have tried:

<asp:BoundField DataField="AnnualSalary" HeaderText="AnnualSalary" SortExpression="AnnualSalary"
HtmlEncode="False" DataFormatString="{0:c}" />

Posted 15-Oct-16 1:38am

paul_vin

Updated 15-Oct-16 1:53am

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Suvendu Shekhar Giri · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-15T01:53:00

Solution 1

Try adding following to your Page attribute-

HTML

UICulture="en-US" Culture="en-US"

or at web.config level, you can add following inside system.web section-

HTML

<globalization uiculture="en-US" culture="en-US"></globalization>

Hope, it helps :)

Posted 15-Oct-16 1:53am

Suvendu Shekhar Giri

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paul_vin 18-Oct-16 8:07am

Thanks.........!!!!

Suvendu Shekhar Giri 18-Oct-16 9:00am

Glad that it helped :)