arithmetic overflow

[tshad]

I have the following that works:

public static void GetValueFromDbObject(object dbObjectValue, ref decimal
destination)
{
destination = 2323;
return;
}

This gives me an arithmetic overflow:

public static void GetValueFromDbObject(object dbObjectValue, ref decimal
destination)
{
destination = decimal.MaxValue;
return;
}

How can that be? I thought that decimal.MaxValue is the maximum value you
can have.

Thanks,

Tom

[Paul E Collins]

"tshad" <ts**********@ftsolutions.com> wrote:

This gives me an arithmetic overflow:
public static void GetValueFromDbObject(
object dbObjectValue, ref decimal destination)
{
destination = decimal.MaxValue;
return;
}

It works fine here (.NET Framework 1.1.4322 SP1).

Are you absolutely sure that *this* is causing the overflow, and not
anything else in your program?

P.

[tshad]

"Paul E Collins" <fi******************@CL4.org> wrote in message
news:dj**********@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...

"tshad" <ts**********@ftsolutions.com> wrote:

This gives me an arithmetic overflow:
public static void GetValueFromDbObject(
object dbObjectValue, ref decimal destination)
{
destination = decimal.MaxValue;
return;
}
It works fine here (.NET Framework 1.1.4322 SP1).

Are you absolutely sure that *this* is causing the overflow, and not
anything else in your program?

It is something else.

Took me a while to find it and am trying to work out why.

I am writing this to a money field in Sql Server.

I assume that decimal is larger that Money (even though I read that they are
equivelant) and that when dealing with Money fields, you should use decimal
in C#. But that doesn't mean the max's are the same.

Tom
P.

[Paul E Collins]

"tshad" <ts**********@ftsolutions.com> wrote:

I assume that decimal is larger that Money (even though
I read that they are equivelant) and that when dealing with
Money fields, you should use decimal in C#.

No. Use SqlMoney from System.Data.SqlTypes.

P.