ASP.NET - Negative numbers in Parenthesis

Question

My application is currently displaying negative numbers as -1. The users have changed the requirements (just for a change!) and now we will have to display the numbers as (1). Can I enable that for the whole application say changing the web.config or even the app's CultureInfo ? Is there any side effect of doing that since we have lots of pages that contain number validators ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

For currency it is really easy:

String.Format("{0:C}", value)

This will use the culture info for the system.

For normal numbers being data bound, use Mark Glorie's sample.

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