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Hello,

how can we convert a value from one currency to
another currency in vb.net? Is that possible? I dont want
to use any hardcoded value for the exchange rate. I wont
to get it online and do the conversion. Anybody has done
this before?

Thanks
Nov 19 '05 #1
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> how can we convert a value from one currency to
another currency in vb.net? Is that possible? I dont want
to use any hardcoded value for the exchange rate. I wont
to get it online and do the conversion. Anybody has done
this before?

You can use an XML Web Service to do this.
http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx is a free service you can
use to get conversion rates for two currencies.

Anders Norås
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/anoras/
Nov 19 '05 #2

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