Set variable formatting in MVC razor

Issue

This was a real challenge to figure out.  It seems pretty straight forward but it is the details that eat up so much time.  I had a number of decimal data types that represented currency.  I wanted them displayed at local currency.  I thought .Net has this down and lots of people have done this already.  Easy, right?

Well, yes and no.  I went to implement and found most examples and answers incomplete.

Here is what you need.  In the razor view, add references to the threading and globalization namespaces:

@using System.Threading
@using System.Globalization

In your markup, use the String.Format and CultureInfo methods to get your formatting correct.

 var tDebit = String.Format(new CultureInfo("en-US"), "{0:C}", nDebit);
 @Html.Raw(tDebit);

Sources

1. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bz9tc508.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-3
2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10740828/format-decimal-to-currency-in-viewbag
3. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k.aspx