TextWriter.FormatProvider Property

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

IFormatProvider

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.

Applies to

See also

• StreamWriter
• StringWriter
• File and Stream I/O
• How to: Read Text from a File
• How to: Write Text to a File