How to format a Windows Forms Textbox with thousand separator and decimal separtor for numeric input

Question

I'm new to Windows Forms and try to do something. I'm using C#.

I'm using Windows Forms and I've put eight textboxes on my form, and all are numeric with decimal value.

I like to achieve the results below. My decimal separator is a comma and thousand separator is a dot. I've ever seen something like ##.###,## or whatever, but don't remember.... How can i achieve the below approach?

So the idea is when I type 1234 and leave the focus from the textbox it should format and when I get in the textbox back again the thousand separator should not format only the decimal separator.

I think I've to use some events like LostFocus.

Input                 Result

1234                1.234,00

12.34                    12,34

12,34                    12,34

1234567     1.234.567,00

12,34                    12,34

12345,67     12.345,67

Answer 1

On your LostFocus event in the textbox, use:

textBox1.Text = string.Format("{0:#,##0.00}", double.Parse(textBox1.Text));

Make sure that the text is double / integer first before applying the above logic or it will throw an exception. This solution is rather harsh, tough.

If you want the format to be in a specific culture rather than your current computer's culture, then

textBox1.Text = string.Format(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("id-ID"), "{0:#,##0.00}", double.Parse(textBox1.Text));

The above example is for the Indonesian currency format, in which the thousand separator use dot (".") rather than comma (",").