TryParse failing with currency string type for parameter

Question

My form has textbox that holds a number for quantity. then in the textchanged event that number is placed in a label's text property with currency value (ex: $4.00). In my button click event I am trying to add all the values from the labels. When using the following code tryparse fails everytime

int num1;
string text = lbl85x11bwsub.Text;
if (int.TryParse(text, out num1)) 
{
     MessageBox.Show(num1.ToString()); //testing
}
else
{
      MessageBox.Show("it failed");
}

but if I try the same thing using the textbox's text property it works.

int num2;
if (int.TryParse(txt85x11bw.Text, out num2)) 
{
     MessageBox.Show(num2.ToString());
}
else
{
      MessageBox.Show("it failed");
 }

Answer 1

@Frederik Gheysels give you almost complete answer on your question except one tiny thing. In this case you should use NumberStyles.Currency because your number can be not only not integer, but also contain thousand and decimal separators. While NumberStyles.AllowCurrencySymbol will only care about currency sign. On the other hand NumberStyles.Currency is a composite number style. Which can allow almost all the other separators.

So, this expression, probably, will works:

Decimal.TryParse(text, 
    NumberStyles.Currency, 
    CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, 
    out result);

Answer 2

Try

Decimal.TryParse(text, 
    NumberStyles.Currency, 
    CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, 
    out result);

instead. The number you're trying to parse, is:

• not an integer
• contains a currency symbol