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How to round and truncate long decimal strings in vb.net for compact framework

Earlier today I asked this question:

I will have string data coming in, with 1, 2, or 3 digits preceding the decimal point, and 12 digits after the decimal point.  An example would be 12.918171615141.  I need to truncate everything past the 4th decimal digit, so that my example string would look like 12.9181.

Better yet would be if I could ROUND it properly, so that in this example I would end up with 12.9182.  But to do so, I assume I would have to move the string to a numeric variable and use a math function.  IF this is feasible, I need some sample code to handle this as well, i.e. how to properly get it into a numeric variable, then do the rounding, and get it back in to a string.  TIA

And the most complete answer I got was this:

Dim yv as Double

if Double.TryParse(strABC, out yv) then
     'strABC a valid decimal.
     yv = Math.Round(yv, 3, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero)
     strABC = yv.ToString()
else
    yv = nothing
end if

I closed out the question too soon, because now that I'm able to try this code, I am getting syntax errors.  I suspect that some of this may be because I'm working in the compact framework environment with its limitations.  Unfortunately I failed to mention this in my earlier question.

Specifically, here are the errors I am getting:

1) In the line that says "if Double.TryParse(Me.txtLocTot.Text, out yv) then", it is saying that "TryParse is not a member of Double", and "name out is not declared", and "comma or valid expression expected" at the end of that line.

2) In the line that says "yv = Math.Round(yv, 3, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero)", it says "MidpointRounding is not declared".

I have messed with it for quite a while, but getting nowhere.  So, any suggestions to will be appreciated.  TIA
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The syntax errors I get are these:

'TryParse' is not a member of 'Double'.

Name 'MidpointRounding' is not declared.

Any idea how to get around these two problems?  I am using Visual Studio 2008, developing for a mobile device.
I have VS 2013 and tried it on a project using mobile device template and it does compile. I tried looking for documentation but could not find anything specific to mobile api support. I do not know if I will be of any help with this issue.