One of the key features of MultiRow is its support of format strings compatible with the .NET Framework.
String Format
The following features use the same format strings as the .NET Framework.
- ProgressBarCell.TextFormat Property
- PrintInfoCell.FormatString Property
- CellStyle.Format Property
For details about the .NET Framework format settings, refer to the 
.NET Framework Developer's Guide Formatting Overview http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/26etazsy%28VS.80%29.aspx. The following feature uses independent formats.
- RowHeaderCell.ValueFormat Property
If you specify "%1%" with this property, it shows continuous numbering, 1, 2, 3, 4, based on the number of rows. Use "%A%" for an alphabetic display. For more details, refer to RowHeaderCell.ValueFormat property.
String Format and Data Types
The .NET Framework provides formats for numeric values, dates, time, and enumerations. To implement these formats, the corresponding data type for the cell needs to be of the same type. For example, even when you specify numeric format for a text type cell, the value entered by the user would still be text type, so formatting would not be applied to this entry. In order to specify numeric format, the data type of the cell also needs to be numeric.
Culture
The culture that can be set with the following properties is compatible with the .NET Framework.
- MaskedTextBoxCell.Culture Property
- CellStyle.FormatProvider Property
The above members provide essentially the same functionality as the following .NET Framework features.
- System.Windows.Forms.MaskedTextBox.Culture Property
- System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellStyle.FormatProvider Property