Textbox currency several countries

Question

I found out that from these lines of code we could get the currency of Canadian.

 Dim value As Decimal = ourTextbox.text 
    Dim positiveValue As Decimal = ourTextbox.text 
    Dim customCurrencyInfo As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("fr-CA")

    customCurrencyInfo.NumberFormat.CurrencyNegativePattern = 8

    Dim formatString As String = value.ToString("C", customCurrencyInfo)
    Dim formatStringPositive As String = positiveValue.ToString("C", customCurrencyInfo)

    myTextbox.text = formatString
    myTextbox2.text = formatStringPositive

The output would be;

-123,45 $ 123,45 $

But what about these countries:

-Malaysia
-Indonesia
-Somalia / Africa
-Arabia

How to get their currency shown on the formatting textbox?

I have edited your title. Please see, "[Should questions include “tags” in their titles?](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19190/)", where the consensus is "no, they should not". — John Saunders, Apr 29 '14 at 01:47
You can find culture info here... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb896001.aspx — Trevor, Apr 29 '14 at 01:50
info on defining / extending culture info: http://stackoverflow.com/a/223661/1070452 — Ňɏssa Pøngjǣrdenlarp, Apr 29 '14 at 02:05
alright.... i will remember it once i post some questions in the future. — gumuruh, May 05 '14 at 04:36

har07 · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-29T02:12:59.560

Pass different culture name as parameter of CreateSpecificCulture() method, for example :

'Malaysia'
Dim customCurrencyInfo As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("my-MY")
'Indonesia'
Dim customCurrencyInfo As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("id-ID")
'Afrikaans'
Dim customCurrencyInfo As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("af")
'Arabic'
Dim customCurrencyInfo As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("ar")

You can find culture name list in MSDN : CultureInfo Class

Note: changing culture info not only change currency symbol but may also change decimal and thousand separator. If you want to avoid that, you can copy current culture

info and simply change it's currency symbol from other culture :
Dim customCurrencyInfo = (CultureInfo)CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Clone();
Dim culture As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("id-ID")
customCurrencyInfo.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol = culture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol

Textbox currency several countries

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