<TimeSpan_LegacyFormatMode> Element

Determines whether the runtime preserves legacy behavior in formatting operations with System.TimeSpan values.

<configuration>
   <runtime>
     <TimeSpan_LegacyFormatMode>

Синтаксис

<TimeSpan_LegacyFormatMode
   enabled="true|false"/>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Атрибуты

enabled Attribute

Child Elements

Нет.

Parent Elements

Замечания

Starting with .NET Framework 4, the System.TimeSpan structure implements the IFormattable interface and supports formatting operations with standard and custom format strings. If a parsing method encounters an unsupported format specifier or format string, it throws a FormatException.

In previous versions of .NET Framework, the TimeSpan structure did not implement IFormattable and did not support format strings. However, many developers mistakenly assumed that TimeSpan did support a set of format strings and used them in composite formatting operations with methods such as String.Format. Ordinarily, if a type implements IFormattable and supports format strings, calls to formatting methods with unsupported format strings usually throw a FormatException. However, because TimeSpan did not implement IFormattable, the runtime ignored the format string and instead called the TimeSpan.ToString() method. This means that, although the format strings had no effect on the formatting operation, their presence did not result in a FormatException.

For cases in which legacy code passes a composite formatting method and an invalid format string, and that code cannot be recompiled, you can use the <TimeSpan_LegacyFormatMode> element to restore the legacy TimeSpan behavior. When you set the enabled attribute of this element to true, the composite formatting method results in a call to TimeSpan.ToString() rather than TimeSpan.ToString(String, IFormatProvider), and a FormatException is not thrown.

Пример

The following example instantiates a TimeSpan object and attempts to format it with the String.Format(String, Object) method by using an unsupported standard format string.

using System;

public class Example
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      TimeSpan interval = new TimeSpan(12, 30, 45);
      string output;
      try {
         output = String.Format("{0:r}", interval);
      }
      catch (FormatException) {
         output = "Invalid Format";
      }
      Console.WriteLine(output);
   }
}

Module Example
    Public Sub Main()
        Dim interval As New TimeSpan(12, 30, 45)
        Dim output As String
        Try
            output = String.Format("{0:r}", interval)
        Catch e As FormatException
            output = "Invalid Format"
        End Try
        Console.WriteLine(output)
    End Sub
End Module

When you run the example on .NET Framework 3.5 or on an earlier version, it displays the following output:

12:30:45

This differs markedly from the output if you run the example on the .NET Framework 4 or later version:

Invalid Format

However, if you add the following configuration file to the example's directory and then run the example on .NET Framework 4 or a later version, the output is identical to that produced by the example when it is run on .NET Framework 3.5.

<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<configuration>
   <runtime>
      <TimeSpan_LegacyFormatMode enabled="true"/>
   </runtime>
</configuration>

См. также

• Configure apps by using configuration files
• схема параметров среды выполнения
• Схема файла конфигурации