Format currency using Globalization .NET

There are some elegant way to format the currency such as

String.Format(“{0:c}”,100000”)

The output will be RM100,000.00 if your web.config file set as

<*system.web*>
<*globalization uiCulture="en" culture="en-MY" /*>

However this will not throw you an error if you are using windows vista. such as

The tag contains an invalid value for the 'culture' attribute.

if there is an error please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemGlobalizationCultureInfoClassTopic.asp to find out your own culture code.

in this case i should change it to

<*globalization uiCulture="ms" culture="ms-MY" /*>

....
If you set the culture to “en-US” then the output will changed to
$100,000.00
You can check your currency symbol by using this code

System.Globalization.RegionInfo myRI2 = new System.Globalization.RegionInfo(new CultureInfo("en-my", false).LCID);
Console.Write(myRI2.CurrencySymbol);

For more information on setting the culture for specific to your country, please refer the code from this website:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.regioninfo.aspx

Alternatively, you can specify use string. Format (“{0:$#,##0.##}”,50000), you can replace the ‘$’ whaterver you like. however this is not a good practice.