ASP.NET VALIDATION

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how did you enter the naximum value? 10,339.58 or 10339.58?

post your code, so we could look at it and figure out the problem

did you set the type to "currency"?

I use some code to determine amount max and min, then plug it into the range amounts, both amountmax and amountmin are decimal.

RV_amounttxtbx.maximumvalue = amountmax.tostring("C")
RV_amounttxtbx.minimumvalue = amountmin.tostring("C")

The body has
<asp:rangevalidator ID="RV_amounttxtbx" EnableClientScript="false" ControlToValidate="amount1txtbx" Display="Dynamic" runat="server"/>

try this

<asp:rangevalidator ID="RV_amounttxtbx"
EnableClientScript="false"
ErrorMessage="Please enter a number between 10.00 and 10,339.58" ControlToValidate="amount1txtbx"
Type="Currency"
Display="Dynamic"
runat="server"/>

also try changing

RV_amounttxtbx.maximumvalue = amountmax.tostring("C")
RV_amounttxtbx.minimumvalue = amountmin.tostring("C")

to

RV_amounttxtbx.maximumvalue = 10.00
RV_amounttxtbx.minimumvalue = 10,339.85

toString() could cause the problem as well

I entered 'Type="Currency" '

I define the error message here.

If amountmax < 10 then
      amounterrormessage = "Deposits of less than 10 pounds will not be accepted"
Else
      amounterrormessage = "Please enter an amount between " & amountmin.tostring("C") & " and " & amountmax.tostring("C") & " With pound sign."
End If      
RV_amounttxtbx.errormessage = amounterrormessage

I get the following error message

The value '£10,339.58' of the MaximumValue property of 'RV_amounttxtbx' cannot be converted to type 'Currency'.

this amount is comes from the textbox

<asp:textbox ID="amount1txtbx" runat="server" Width="80"/>
(defaults to maxvalue)

So I removed the .tostring("C") from:

RV_amounttxtbx.maximumvalue = amountmax.tostring("C")
RV_amounttxtbx.minimumvalue = amountmin.tostring("C")

Then the validation works (ish) as then i get the 'Else' condition outlined above.

I cannot change to a fixed value as this is driven through SQL and is dependant on who is logged in, and the max amount they can deposit.

Sorry, I should have mentioned this earlier. It never has a problem under £1,000 pounds, maybe because of the comma?

Again, after a little investigating, amountmax is already inherently set to currency as i get it from another string.

Is there a way to convert from type currency to type decimal? I believe this would fix my problem

you can convert currency to decimal the following way:

amount = Convert.ToDecimal (amount1txtbx.Text)

but I think the problem is caused by the £ sign

also change your if statement from

If amountmax < 10 then
     amounterrormessage = "Deposits of less than 10 pounds will not be accepted"
Else
     amounterrormessage = "Please enter an amount between " & amountmin.tostring("C") & " and " & amountmax.tostring("C") & " With pound sign."
End If    


to something like that:

If amountmax < 10 then
     amounterrormessage = "Deposits of less than 10 pounds will not be accepted"
Elseif amountmax > 10000
     amounterrormessage = "Deposits of more than 10,000 pounds will not be accepted"
Else
     amounterrormessage = "Please enter an amount between " & amountmin.tostring("C") & " and " & amountmax.tostring("C") & " With pound sign."
End If    

This way your validation takes care of the maximum amount of 10,000 as well and does not give you error message every time the amount exceeds 10.00

I'm sorry. made a mistake, change your if statement to

If amountmax < 10 then
     amounterrormessage = "Deposits of less than 10 pounds will not be accepted"
Elseif amountmax > 10000
     amounterrormessage = "Deposits of more than 10,000 pounds will not be accepted"
End If    

so that the user can enter a maximum amount between 10.00 and 10,000.00 pounds    

Ok, I still get the 'else' condition occuring.

Also, it no longer works for amounts under £1,000 pounds.

Just to refresh, here is the code that I am now using.

RV_amounttxtbx.errormessage = amounterrormessage
RV_amounttxtbx.maximumvalue = Convert.ToDecimal(amountmax)
RV_amounttxtbx.minimumvalue = amountmin


<asp:rangevalidator ID="RV_amounttxtbx"
Type="Currency"
EnableClientScript="false"
ControlToValidate="amount1txtbx"
Display="Dynamic"
runat="server"/>

what 'else' condition?

I missed one your comments, so I will address that first.

You suggested:
If amountmax < 10 then
     amounterrormessage = "Deposits of less than 10 pounds will not be accepted"
Elseif amountmax > 10000
     amounterrormessage = "Deposits of more than 10,000 pounds will not be accepted"
End If    

so that the user can enter a maximum amount between 10.00 and 10,000.00 pounds

The minimum value is hardcoded to £10. The maximum value is the result of a query, this is not necessarily £10,000 it may be £100, so the max value cannot be static.

Secondly,

I get the else condition from above:

Else
     amounterrormessage = "Please enter an amount between " & amountmin.tostring("C") & " and " & amountmax.tostring("C") & " With pound sign."
End If

the if statement takes care of the values below 10000, which includes 100 or any amount above 10.00 and below 10,000. It is not static

just post all your code and I'll test it on my machine