Need to format number in textboxes, but VB.NET is assigning the format string instead

Hi, I'm writing a financial application and can't seem to figure out how to properly format numbers for display.  In the code snippet below, you can see two methods that I am using to format numbers.  The first line causes the actual textbox value to be the string value "N" but all documentation I've seen says that's how I'm supposed to do it.

The second line works for a calculation but not for formatting a single textbox.  On validation of textRegLaborHours, the user's entry should be formatted as #,##0.00.

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textRegLaborHours.Text = Format(textRegLaborHours.Text, "N")
textRegLaborTotal.Text = (CDbl(textRegLaborHours.Text) * CDbl _(textRegLaborRate.Text)).ToString("N")