NumberFormatInfo not initialized in 2011Q2

[naip]

Hello,

I have a minor problem with the RadNumericUpDown. Before the Q2-Update, the NumberFormatInfo-Property of the RadNumericUpDown was initialized and the following code run without problems...

InitializeComponent();
myNumericSelector.NumberFormatInfo.NumberGroupSeparator = string.Empty;

After the Q2-Update the NumberFormatInfo-Property is null and our application crashed. It was easy to fix, but I am curious: was this change intentional and will the property be null in future versions?

Best regards,
Thomas

[Valeri Hristov]

Hello Thomas,

Unfortunately this change is intentional and was made to avoid a problem with Blend, which always tried to serialize the property value in XAML and since NumberFormatInfo cannot be instantiated in XAML in Silverlight, this lead to invalid code... I apologize for the inconvenience.

Best wishes,
Valeri Hristov
the Telerik team

[naip]

Hello Valeri,

thank you very much for your explanation. I can definitely live with that ;)

Best regards,
Thomas

[Josh]

Is there a workaround to remove the group separator?  We have many NumericUpDowns throughout our application that are used to display a year.  We do not want a comma in the year and in previous versions this worked.

-Josh

[Yana]

Hi Josh,

You should set the NumberFormatInfo like this:

numericUpDown.NumberFormatInfo = new NumberFormatInfo() {
   NumberGroupSeparator = string.Empty
};

Kind regards,
Yana
the Telerik team