Re: Variable type Money/Currency

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The help for CS0664 is pretty clear. By default, doubles cannot be
implicitly converted to decimal. 100.15 is considered a double. To
make it decimal write 100.15M:

deductionTotals += 100.15M;

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tshad wrote:
> "Chris Dunaway" <dunawayc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1126287869.237782.113620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > You'd probably be better off using a Decimal type
>
> But how do you add cents?
>
> I tried doing:
>
> deductionTotals += 100.15
>
> and got 2 errors:
>
> Literal of type double cannot be implicitly converted to type 'decimal';
> use an 'M' suffix to create a literal of this type
>
> and
>
> Operator '+=' cannot be applied to operands of type 'decimal' and
> 'double'
>
> Do I need to take all my calculations and multiply them by 100?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
> >

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