Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal

Question

I have the following piece of code:

double shortfall = GetSomeNumber(); //3.3588548831176006E+29  if (shortfall > 0) {   returnValue = Convert.ToDecimal(shortfall); } 

That generates the above error.

Answer 1

Well, it's fairly self-explanatory.

decimal.MaxValue is 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335 - your number is bigger than this.

Although decimal has a finer precision than double, double has a bigger range - it can handle very, very large and very, very small numbers.

Now, if you could tell us what you're really trying to do, we could try to help find a solution... it's rarely a good idea to mix double and decimal, to be honest.