Formatting PagerStyle to Include Comma Separators

[Erin]

I am working on a project that involves thousands of entries, so that when the Grid loads the Pager text in the lower right corner might display something like "Entries 1 to 20 of 10000000."  Is it possible to add comma separators to those numbers to make them more readable, such as "10,000,000" instead of "10000000"?  I have seen methods of introducing commas within the C# code, but in this case I am using something like PagerTextFormat="{4} Entries {2} to {3} of {5}" which appears to be sent through a hidden String.Format before displaying.  If there isn't a built-in way to set the comma formatting, is it possible to access the text after the values have been inserted into the {2}, {3}, and {5}, in order to insert commas?
Thank you!

[Eyup]

Hi Erin,

Please try the following approach:

<PagerStyle PagerTextFormat="{4} {1} Pages Total. Showing items {2} to {3} of {5:0,0} total." />

For additional information on formatting numeric values, please refer to the following article:
 Custom Numeric Format Strings

Greetings,
Eyup
the Telerik team

[Erin]

Thank you for your response!

I had actually gone ahead and done this in the aspx.cs file, like this:

string strRows = (e.Item as GridPagerItem).Paging.DataSourceCount.ToString("#,##0");
string strPages = MyRadGrid.PageCount.ToString("#,##0");
MyRadGrid.PagerStyle.PagerTextFormat = "{4} " + strRows + " items in " + strPages + " pages";

But your way is much more elegant. 
Is there a reference from Telerik on how you can format variables like this?  Is something like this, from the msdn composite formatting examples, possible within the xml?

string myName = "Fred";
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Name = {0}, hours = {1:hh}, minutes = {1:mm}",
      myName, DateTime.Now));
// Depending on the current time, the example displays output like the following:
//    Name = Fred, hours = 11, minutes = 30

Thanks

[Eyup]

Hi Erin,

I am afraid this feature is not implemented. You could use regular System.String type formatting and the msdn articles for additional tips on formatting these string values.

Additionally, please check out the following help topic to understand in depth how to use pager item text formatting:
 Grid / Using PagerTextFormat

All the best,
Eyup
the Telerik team