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You can write your own formatprovider class.<br />
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Example:<br />
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.iformatprovider.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.iformatprovider.aspx</a><br />
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In your formatprovider, just divide the number by 1000000, then format the result to currency and add 'M' at the end.<br />

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You can write your own formatprovider class.

Example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.iformatprovider.aspx [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.iformatprovider.aspx]

In your formatprovider, just divide the number by 1000000, then format the result to currency and add 'M' at the end.


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The closest built-in format that comes to my mind is the &quot;e&quot; or scientific notation format.<br />
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An example: <br />
double value = 25000000;<br />
string f = value.ToString(&quot;e2&quot;);<br />
Console.WriteLine(f);<br />
//outputs: 2.50e+007<br />
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If the client is used to looking at spreadsheets, they may be used to this sort of notation.<br />
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-Jason<br />

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The closest built-in format that comes to my mind is the "e" or scientific notation format.

An example:
double value = 25000000;
string f = value.ToString("e2");
Console.WriteLine(f);
//outputs: 2.50e+007

If the client is used to looking at spreadsheets, they may be used to this sort of notation.

-Jason


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Our client is dealing with cash accounts that are in the $$$ millions. &nbsp;We are using a grid to display the balances and other totals in a number of columns that span the page. &nbsp;Since the columns can get narrow, the client would like large numbers to be formatted in an abbreviated way. &nbsp;For example...<br />
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$25,000,000.00 would be formatted as $25.0M or something to that effect. &nbsp;Is there a common formatter in the .Net framework that accommodates formatting large number in this way?<br />
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Thanks!<br />
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Code example preferred.
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Our client is dealing with cash accounts that are in the $$$ millions.  We are using a grid to display the balances and other totals in a number of columns that span the page.  Since the columns can get narrow, the client would like large numbers to be formatted in an abbreviated way.  For example...

$25,000,000.00 would be formatted as $25.0M or something to that effect.  Is there a common formatter in the .Net framework that accommodates formatting large number in this way?

Thanks!

Code example preferred.

Formatting big numbers in c#

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