ASP.NET MVC data annotation for currency format

Question

I have following POCO with Cost as float.

public class CostChart
{
    public string itemType { get; set; }
    public float? Cost{ get; set; }

}
         


        

Answer 1

Check out this article(Codeculous.) an alternate way to validate and display the respective currency symbols without setting Globalization and just by adding the data annotations DataType(DataType.Currency).