double.Parse produces overflow exception on double.MinValue

[Samuel R. Neff]

I'm using a quasi open-source project and am running into an exception
in double.Parse which is effectively this:

double.Parse(do uble.MinValue.T oString())
System.Overflow Exception: Value was either too large or too small for
a Double.
at System.Number.P arseDouble(Stri ng s, NumberStyles style,
NumberFormatInf o info)
at System.Double.P arse(String s, NumberStyles style,
IFormatProvider provider)
at System.Double.P arse(String s)
double.MinValue is obviously a valid double so double.Parse should be
able to parse it's string represntation. So is this a bug? Is there
a work-around?
the actual code is this:
if(data is long || data is ulong || data is float || data is double ||
data is decimal)
{
WriteDouble(dou ble.Parse(data. ToString()));
return;
}

Which could be improved, but double.Parse should still work in this
scenario.

Thanks,

Sam
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[Artur Borecki]

"Samuel R. Neff" <sa********@nom ail.comwrote in message
news:1h******** *************** *********@4ax.c om...

I'm using a quasi open-source project and am running into an exception
in double.Parse which is effectively this:

double.Parse(do uble.MinValue.T oString())

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ouble.minvalue , first link

[Samuel R. Neff]

Thanks!

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:07:35 +0100, "Artur Borecki"
<ab************ ******@tenbit.p lwrote:

>
"Samuel R. Neff" <sa********@nom ail.comwrote in message
news:1h******* *************** **********@4ax. com...

>I'm using a quasi open-source project and am running into an exception
in double.Parse which is effectively this:

double.Parse(d ouble.MinValue. ToString())

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ouble.minvalue , first link

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