LightSwitch – Formatting Decimal Values

Stephen Weatherford posted a sample custom control for formatting decimal values on the following thread.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitchgeneral/thread/563c07df-7641-4a54-a0ba-8d5bb675cb7a

An interesting part of his suggestion was adding the custom control into the LightSwitch ‘Client Project’ rather than creating a Silverlight Custom Control project.  A completed version of his solution can be downloaded here:

http://cid-7a042700ee409d7b.office.live.com/self.aspx/LightswitchFiles/DecimalPlace2.zip

Here’s a link to my connect issue on formatting. You need to be logged into Connect to view this.

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/654220/lightswitch-allow-data-to-be-formatted