I have a data reader to read the datas from database. I am reading TotalPrice from sales table. I would like to show the total price as 2 decimal place.
The code is something link that:
TotalPrice.Text = myReader["TotalPrice"].ToString("N2"); However i encounted this error: no overload for method "ToString" takes 1 arguments What's wrong with the code?
Assuming that TotalPrice is a Decimal column, and that myReader is a DataReader:
TotalPrice.Text = myReader.GetDecimal(myReader.GetOrdinal("TotalPrice")).ToString("N2"); The idea here is that myReader's indexer (what you are using when you call myReader["TotalPrice"]) returns an Object. It has to, since it doesn't know at compile time what type the column is. By using .GetDecimal(), you are assuring that you get a Decimal value back, or an error.
The .ToString overload that takes a format string is declared on Decimal, not on Object. Object's .ToString takes no arguments.
The inner call to GetOrdinal returns the field's index given the name- if you are doing this in a loop for multiple data rows, you'd probably want to cache that in a variable.
String.Format() will do the trick. F2 is fixed-point notation with 2 decimal places.
TotalPrice.Text = string.Format("{0:F2}", (double)myReader["TotalPrice"]);