StringFormat and CurrentCulture in Silverlight

Posted by: Method ~ of ~ failed, on 11 Aug 2010 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

I recently got a note about a nagging issue in using StringFormat in XAML binding expressions and how it doesnt honor the current users culture settings. This is true that there is an issue in that it doesnt in WPF or Silverlight. If you dont know what Im talking about, Silverlight introduced the ability to use StringFormat in data binding expressions (WPF has had this since 3.5 SP1) so you could do some formatting in-line in your binding. Like this: 1: <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=CurrentDate,...

Advertisement
Free Agile Project Management Tool from Telerik
TeamPulse Community Edition helps your team effectively capture requirements, manage project plans, assign and track work, and most importantly, be continually connected with each other.
Category: XAML | Other Posts: View all posts by this blogger | Report as irrelevant | View bloggers stats | Views: 1084 | Hits: 20

Similar Posts

  • Silverlight MVP more
  • Mixing Silverlight and MS ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 in the same web application. more
  • Building a Silverlight 3 based RIA Image Magagement System (1) more
  • Building a Silverlight 3 based RIA Image Management System - 1 more
  • Telerik Launches RadControls for Silverlight 3 for Line-of-Business Application Development more
  • Provide startup parameters to Silverlight with InitParams more
  • Silverlight Twitter Client with authentication more
  • How To: Easy printing with Telerik RadGridView for Silverlight more
  • Silverlight 3 and WCF Faults more
  • Why Embedded Silverlight Makes Sense more

News Categories

.NET | Agile | Ajax | Architecture | ASP.NET | BizTalk | C# | Certification | Data | DataGrid | DataSet | Debugger | DotNetNuke | Events | GridView | IIS | Indigo | JavaScript | Mobile | Mono | Patterns and Practices | Performance | Podcast | Refactor | Regex | Security | Sharepoint | Silverlight | Smart Client Applications | Software | SQL | VB.NET | Visual Studio | W3 | WCF | WinFx | WPF | WSE | XAML | XLinq | XML | XSD