TextWriter.FormatProvider Property
Definition
Gets an object that controls formatting.
public:
virtual property IFormatProvider ^ FormatProvider { IFormatProvider ^ get(); };
public virtual IFormatProvider FormatProvider { get; }
member this.FormatProvider : IFormatProvider
Public Overridable ReadOnly Property FormatProvider As IFormatProvider
Property Value
An IFormatProvider object for a specific culture, or the formatting of the current culture if no other culture is specified.
Remarks
The value of the FormatProvider property specifies the culture-specific formatting that is used when you call the Write and WriteLine methods. If you do not want to provide a format provider, you create an instance by using the TextWriter() constructor, which sets the FormatProvider property to null
. When the FormatProvider property contains null
, the culture of the current thread is used for formatting.
For an example of creating a file and writing text to a file, see How to: Write Text to a File. For an example of reading text from a file, see How to: Read Text from a File. For an example of reading from and writing to a binary file, see How to: Read and Write to a Newly Created Data File.
For a list of common I/O tasks, see Common I/O Tasks.