August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
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IFormatProvider
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);
}
System.Globalization.{CultureInfo,
DateTimeFormatInfo,
NumberFormatInfo}
System.IO.TextWriter.FormatProvider
Multiple types