>You may be right, but I find the NET documentation extremely difficult to follow. This
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> RetVal += "<td>" + oReader("priorpmt").GetDecimal().ToString("$ #0,0.00") + "</td>"
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>Does not work. "Error says Public member 'GetDecimal' on type 'Decimal' not found."
I agree - the documentation at MSDN is not very helpful. Try to google on GetDecimal and on your problem.
Also I changed GetDecimal to GetDecimal(), but I'm not certain you can do this in one line. If it would not work, use two vars workaround.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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