Questions tagged [formatprovider]
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Format decimal for percentage values?
What I want is something like this:
String.Format("Value: {0:%%}.", 0.8526)
Where %% is that format provider or whatever I am looking for.
Should result: Value: %85.26..
I basically need it for wpf binding, but first let's solve the general…

Shimmy Weitzhandler
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Best practices for serializing objects to a custom string format for use in an output file
I was just about to implement an override of ToString() on a particular business class in order to produce an Excel-friendly format to write to an output file, which will be picked up later and processed. Here's what the data is supposed to look…

Chris McCall
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