Developers (including you) benefit when you provide a string representation of your class. By implementing IFormattable, you can take control of this representation and provide some flexibility.

Working with date and time values often requires an ability to convert these values into string values in a particular format. In this article, I’ll look at a simple way of converting these values ...

Java SE 1.5 added the ability to format output using formatting strings like “%5.2f%n” to print a floating point number and a newline. An October 2004 tip titled ...

Java’s String class encapsulates an array of bytes. A byte can be converted to a char, in which case, String becomes an array of characters used to compose words, sentences, or any other data you want ...

I'm converted an old Vb6 project over to .net and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get a string formatted like I want.<BR><BR>Basically the phone number is stored in the format xxxxxxx and ...