StringBuilder only gives you gains if you are concatenating the same string over multiple lines of code. If you care creating the string in a single line, StringBuilder just gets in the way.
>Do you mean instead of StringBuilder?
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>I figured out the missing piece (I just needed to specify the number after the parameter, e.g. {1,11:N0}) but somehow my unit test was still failing although visually to me the output looked exactly the same.
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>I decided to trust the visual output and switched to a different method now.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer