displaying numbers with thousand separator and .00

On my previous project, I needed to select a number stored in the database, such as 36749384 or 934834.23 which were monetary values, and display them as 36,749,384.00 and 934,834.23. Basically, in monetary terms.
I was thinking of using string manipulation but that would only work in my .net development, so if you need these kinds [...]

Render HTML tags in DB in ActiveReport pdf or HTML

I had to tackle showing actual HTML formatting that was stored in the DB by our company’s own texteditor which had the basic formatting like bold, italics, font colout etc, and digging around the active reports forum basically just told me I needed to version 4.0+ for it to be automatically rendered in RichTextBox.
The solution that arose from [...]