[c#] What is ToString("N0") format?

This code is from Charles Pettzold's "Programming Windows Sixth Edition" book:

public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, string language) 
{ 
    return ((double)value).ToString("N0"); 
}

ToString("N0") is supposed to print the value with comma separators and no decimal points. I cannot find the reference to appropriate ToString overload and "N0" format in the documentation. Please point me to the right place in .NET documentation.

This is where the documentation is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k.aspx

The numeric ("N") format specifier converts a number to a string of the form "-d,ddd,ddd.ddd…", where "-" indicates a negative number symbol if required, "d" indicates a digit (0-9) ...

And this is where they talk about the default (2):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.numberformatinfo.numberdecimaldigits.aspx

      // Displays a negative value with the default number of decimal digits (2).
      Int64 myInt = -1234;
      Console.WriteLine( myInt.ToString( "N", nfi ) );

Here is a good start maybe

Double.ToString()

Have a look in the examples for a number of different formating options Double.ToString(string)

It is a sort of format specifier for formatting numeric results. There are additional specifiers on the link.

What N does is that it separates numbers into thousand decimal places according to your CultureInfo and represents only 2 decimal digits in floating part as is N2 by rounding right-most digit if necessary.

N0 does not represent any decimal place but rounding is applied to it.

Let's exemplify.

using System;
using System.Globalization;


namespace ConsoleApp1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            double x = 567892.98789;
            CultureInfo someCulture = new CultureInfo("da-DK", false);

            // 10 means left-padded = right-alignment
            Console.WriteLine(String.Format(someCulture, "{0:N} denmark", x));
            Console.WriteLine("{0,10:N} us", x); 

            // watch out rounding 567,893
            Console.WriteLine(String.Format(someCulture, "{0,10:N0}", x)); 
            Console.WriteLine("{0,10:N0}", x);

            Console.WriteLine(String.Format(someCulture, "{0,10:N5}", x));
            Console.WriteLine("{0,10:N5}", x);


            Console.ReadKey();

        }
    }
}

It yields,

567.892,99 denmark
567,892.99 us
   567.893
   567,893
567.892,98789
567,892.98789

You can find the list of formats here (in the Double.ToString()-MSDN-Article) as comments in the example section.