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Error 2 Operator '+' cannot be applied to operands of type 'decimal' and 'double'

Not sure what this means. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Here is my code:

if (reader.HasRows)
{
id = Convert.ToDecimal(reader["id"].ToString());

id = id + .0001;-----------------------------------------------------------Error Occurs Here
Session.Add("id", id);
}

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

this will work better:

id = id + (decimal).0001;

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kwh3856

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your awesome but your title already shows that;)......congrats on that new title.

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Kenny

Kevin Cross

Angel's answer is the right one, but in the spirit of making shorter, you can do this as well.

id += .0001m;

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gregoryyoung

actually mwvisa1 your answer is correct and here is why ....

id = id + (decimal) .0001;

says ...

id is equal to id plus the conversion of the double value .0001 to a decimal.

id += .0001m; or id = id + .0001m;

says ...

id is equal to id plus .0001

While these two may SEEM to be equivalent they are not because of how floating point math works on computers. Since floating point numbers are handled by approximations ... on some machines (or some JIT implementations) you may end up with a scenario where the first bit of code for an id of 1 returns

2.000100000003

where the second one would return

2.0001

For more details I would suggest reading http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

Cheers,

Greg