Accounting Data Formatting in Excel

Question

i want to generate Excel file using c#. Am using NPOI XSSFWorkbook class. while printing a decimal value in Excel sheet i want to give it Accounting formatting.

For Example my data should look like $35.00. But am not able to achieve it using XSSFWorkbook class. i have already tried
CellStyle.DataFormat = _workbook.CreateDataFormat().GetFormat("#,##0");

Answer 1

Try first set the style for your cell and then change it Format attribute, but with custom format like this:

IDataFormat dataFormatCustom = workbook.CreateDataFormat();
cell.CellStyle = styles["cell"]; 
cell.CellStyle.DataFormat = dataFormatCustom.GetFormat("_($* #,##0.00_);_($* (#,##0.00);_($* ""-""??_);_(@_)");

May be this will work i am not sure.