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NumberDataFormat Class

Represents a data format object for formatting numeric data types.

DataFormat
  |
  +--NumberDataFormat

package com.ms.wfc.data

public class NumberDataFormat
extends DataFormat
implements IConstructable

Remarks

The Column and DataBinding classes provide a dataFormat property, which allows you to format numerical, date, or boolean values. For example, if a column in a DataGrid control has a numeric data type, you can set its dataFormat property to a NumberDataFormat object:

import com.ms.wfc.data.*;
import com.ms.wfc.data.ui.*;

/* Retrieve a numeric-valued column in a DataGrid control.
   Assume this column has an index of 1 in the grid. */
Column column1 = dataGrid1.getColumn(1);

/* Format the column by setting its dataFormat
   property. Create a NumberDataFormat object and
   specify an initial numerical format string. */
column1.setDataFormat(new NumberDataFormat("#,##0"));

/* Retrieve the column's current DateDataFormat object. */
NumberDataFormat nFormat = (NumberDataFormat) column1.getDataFormat();

/* Set the NumberDataFormat object's format
   property to a different format string. */ 
nFormat.setFormat("#.000");