What do the curly braces mean in C# strings?

Question

while (rdr.Read())
{
    Console.WriteLine(\"Product: {0,-35} Total: {1,2}\", rdr[\"ProductName\"], rdr[\"Total\"]);
}

What does {0,-35} mean in this c

Answer 1

Those {} brackets are for string formatting purpose. example, your case rdr["ProductName"] have given a format specifier {0,-35} ... which will be left aligned with space padded to the right.