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Change format of column from string to currency
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I have an editable grid where all the columnns are string values.  For one of the columns the user enters a number, after they click a button it verifies their inputs and after that I want to format this verified column to currency.  I thought this would work fine

ultraGrid1.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].Columns["Money"].Format = "$nnn,nnn.nn";

ultraGrid1.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].Columns["Money"].MaskInput = $nnn,nnn.nn";

 

But only the mask input is displaying correctly and the format is not.  So I did some searching and some people suggested using a currencyeditor so I tried this code which also didnt work

 

Infragistics.Win.UltraWinEditors.UltraCurrencyEditor c = new Infragistics.Win.UltraWinEditors.UltraCurrencyEditor();

c.FormatString = "$nnn,nnn.nn";

ultraGrid1.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].Columns["Money"].EditorComponent = c;

im thinking im missing some simple step but after reading numerous posts I cant figure it out.

 

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    The problem is that the data type is string. UltraCurrencyEditor expects the System.Decimal data type. The .NET numeric formatting tokens won't work on a string because a string is basically considered to already be formatted.

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