Currency showing as dollars despite regional setting

[tcstom]

Hi,

I have an ASP.NET web app that displays currency values as British pounds on my local version but when run from a server it displays the values in dollars, even though the regional settings of the server are all set to United Kingdom defaults. Where can I configure this?

Thanks,

Tom

Tom

 

[chiph]

Can you post a code snippet that illustrates the problem? Like, where you're formatting it for display?

Chip H.


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[tcstom]

To format the currencies I'm using a variable holding a decimal value e.g. decMyValue and writing it to a string like this:

decMyValue.ToString("C2");

As I say, it works fine locally, but when uploaded to a particular server the currency symbol becomes a dollar sign instead of pound sign, so I presume the issue is a server setting. I know that in old ASP and VBScript there was a region statement you could write at the top of ASP pages. I'm fairly new to .NET so is there something similar?

Tom

 

[chiph]

Try this:

using System.Globalization;

decMyValue.ToString("C2", CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture);

Chip H.


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[tcstom]

Thanks for the tip, but it didn't work I'm afraid. Any other ideas?

Tom

 

[tcstom]

Solved this using this information:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bz9tc508.aspx

- requires culture and uiculture directive at top of web form or in web.config

Tom