Change Currency Format - asp.net

Question

I Have a field that should consist a currency, which is according to my Region is Indonesia which is IDR or Rp.
and i build it with string.format like this :
Dim price As Single = Single.Parse(Convert.ToSingle(lblAmountGV.Text))
lblAmount.Text = String.Format("{0,C}", price)
but it give me a dollar sign. and i Change the code :
lblAmount.Text = String.Format("Rp{0}", price)
but i didn't get the dot (.) and Comma(,) . so I change the code again by using FormatCurrency :
lblAmount.Text = FormatCurrency(lblAmountGV.Text, , , TriState.True, TriState.True)
but it still give me a Dollar sign, later i found how to change the CultureInfo :
by imports :
Imports System.Globalization
and on my code :
Dim culture = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(" id-ID")
Dim format = DirectCast(culture.NumberFormat.Clone(), NumberFormatInfo)
format.CurrencySymbol = "Rp."
var number = Decimal.Parse(lblAmountGV.Text, NumberStyles.Currency, format);
lblAmount.Text = number
but it still give me an $ sign, how to change the $ programatically?

Answer 1

I see a couple issues with what you posted -
this line is incorrect
String.Format("{0,C}", price)
You need to use a colon to add additional formatting arguments. If you want to format currency with decimal places than you also need to indicate the number of decimal digits. It should be something like this
String.Format("{0:C2}", price)
And this line has an extra space that causes it to fail with a CultureNotFoundException
CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(" id-ID")
Should be
CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("id-ID")
This code worked for me:
Dim culture As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("id-ID")
Dim price As Double = 10.05
Dim result As String = String.Format(culture, "{0:C2}", price)
You can see it in action here
If you are familiar with LINQPad, you can paste the following into LINQPad and see the proper formatting without the dollar sign -
String.Format(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("id-ID"), "{0:C2}", 10.05).Dump()