Invalid Cast when assigning a decimal value to the Value property of a telerik:RadNumericTextBox

[Cos]

When I Try: 

<telerik:RadNumericTextBox ID="RadNumericTextBox1" runat="server" Culture="English (United States)" Type="Currency" Font-Size="Smaller" Height="8px" Width="75px" IncrementSettings-Step=".01" AutoPostBack="false" ShowSpinButtons="true" Value='3.49' >

Everything works 'fine', but when I attempt to data bind to the value property (asp.net/.net 3.5) like :

<telerik:RadNumericTextBox ID="RadNumericTextBox1" runat="server" Culture="English (United States)" Type="Currency" Font-Size="Smaller" Height="8px" Width="75px" IncrementSettings-Step=".01" AutoPostBack="false" ShowSpinButtons="true" Value='<%# Eval("CurrentPrice") %>' >

I get "Specified cast is not valid." as a runtime exception. The type for the CurrentPrice Property is Decimal, since the "Type" property for this control is "Currency" (and it is called a "NUMERIC" text box) I expect a decimal to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Daniel]

Hello Cos,

You Eval expression probably returns a value of type object. Try to cast it as double:

Value='<%# Convert.ToDouble(Eval("CurrentPrice")) %>'

or

Value='<%# double.Parse(Eval("id").ToString()) %>'

Kind regards,
Daniel
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[Cos]

Thanks Daniel,

Actually, it evaluates to type of "decimal" (I tested for this).
 The cast 'ToDouble' works. I guess I'm just surprised that Decimal doesn't work, but as I have it working now I'm not worried about it...

Thanks for your help,

Cos