VB.net Casting to double from Textbox

[newbtemple]

Hey all, having some trouble with casting values inputed into a text box into double. In particular, I'm having trouble with the decimal. It's ok if someone puts in a number with a decimal when there is a number before the decimal, but if I input the decimal first I get a :

"Make sure your method arguments are in teh right format" error.




Private Sub tbPrice_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles tbPrice.TextChanged



xPrice = System.Convert.ToDouble(tbPrice.Text)



End Sub

Where xPrice is a double. Any ideas? TIA

[newbtemple]

Hey all, having some trouble with casting values inputed into a text box into double. In particular, I'm having trouble with the decimal. It's ok if someone puts in a number with a decimal when there is a number before the decimal, but if I input the decimal first I get a :

"Make sure your method arguments are in teh right format" error.




Private Sub tbPrice_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles tbPrice.TextChanged



xPrice = System.Convert.ToDouble(tbPrice.Text)



End Sub

Where xPrice is a double. Any ideas? TIA

http://iheartdotnet.blogspot.com/2007/09/cast-vs-doubleparse-vs-converttodouble.html

Found that article, it lists 4 ways of casting but none of them worked for me. The Iconvertable was not available and the casting option was also not an option as the posters mentioned at the bottom.

I'm thinking that I'm gonna need to parse this thing first and do an 'if' for "." and then convert. Or what do you all think of concatenating 1+ textbox first?

[newbtemple]

Think I found a solution, use numbericupdown control! I never knew it existed :P

[Plater]

I would guess that it has something to do with language set you application is using. eng-us is fine to start it with a . and not a number.