How to make a textbox into a masktextbox in Visual Studio 2010?

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I have a form that has ten textboxes on it. I am using VS 2010 ASP.NET with C#. What I am trying to do is to have the textbox to display commas when a user types in numbers. I don't want the numbers with commas to be entered into the database. Right now I have full numbers in the database and if a user wants to see the data that they just entered it should show the data with the commas in the textbox but the data in the database is not changed. Is there a way for me to do this?

Posted 2-Jul-14 2:33am

Computer Wiz99

Updated 2-Jul-14 3:36am

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George Jonsson 2-Jul-14 10:09am

Why not use the event TextChanged and prevent commas from being entered if the Locale doesn't allow that.
In some places a comma is used as the decimal mark in numbers in e.g. Sweden and Spain.

Computer Wiz99 7-Jul-14 10:52am

That is not what I am trying to do. What I am trying to do is to take a textbox and have it to display commas when numbers are typed in. So if I type in 2000 in the textbox it should display 2,000. How can I get this display to show like that?

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Peter Leow · Answer 1 · 2014-07-02T02:35:00

Solution 1

After retrieving the number from database, proceed to ask Google[^].

Posted 2-Jul-14 2:35am

Peter Leow

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Computer Wiz99 2-Jul-14 8:40am

Peter Leow, Is it better to add a Masked Class so that it will not fail or get caught in a loop?