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C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition
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C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition

by Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
32h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

IFormatProvider

Synopsis

This interface provides a way to retrieve an object that controls formatting through the GetFormat( ) method. For example, the System.Globalization.CultureInfo class can return a System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo object, a System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo object, or a null reference, depending on the supplied formatType parameter.

public interface IFormatProvider {
// Public Instance Methods
   public object GetFormat(Type formatType);
}

Implemented By

System.Globalization.{CultureInfo, DateTimeFormatInfo, NumberFormatInfo}

Returned By

System.IO.TextWriter.FormatProvider

Passed To

Multiple types

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596005261Catalog PageErrata