Format Numbers to Currency String in VB.NET

Aug 31, 2010 by d0rr    1 Comment     Posted under: Web Development

I thought it would be helpful to share this piece of simple code

In VB.NET, it is pretty easy to convert a decimal number (say, 12345.6789) to currency format ($12,345.679)

Just convert the number using the lines of code as shown below:

Dim value_int As Integer = 12345.6789 ' original decimal number
Dim digit As Integer = 3 ' to format it to 3 decimal places
Dim value_str As String = value_int.ToString("C" & digit, Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"))

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