A design question about format provider

[Nick nkw]

I am building an asp.net application. However, it had to use a lot of
Convert.ToDatetime or Parse. And I had a lot of the following code:

IFormatProvider provider = new
CultureInfo(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("culture"));
.... DateTime.Parse(lblDate.Text, provider)...
.... Convert.ToDateTime(..., provider)....

Is refactoring the one line to an singleton worth? Sounds it save a little
bit typing.

 

[bruce barker]

the advantage of the singleton is abstraction of the method. you ca
change the formating style in one place.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)