>I have a WPF Window with a DataGrid. This DataGrid contains a phone number column. The phone number is stored as a string without any formatting such as "9995551234".
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>How can I display the phone number column with the following format? (999)555-1234
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>Here is the phone column of my DataGrid with the format that I have tried but this does not work.
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> DataGridTemplateColumn Header="Phone" Width="100"
> DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate
> DataTemplate
> TextBlock Text="{Binding PhoneNumber, StringFormat={}{0:(###)###-####}}" Width="100"
> DataTemplate
> DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate
> DataGridTemplateColumn.CellEditingTemplate
> DataTemplate
> TextBox Text="{Binding PhoneNumber, StringFormat={}{0:(###)###-####}}" Width="100"
> DataTemplate
> DataGridTemplateColumn.CellEditingTemplate
> DataGridTemplateColumn


I would use a ValueConverter...