>>>The above code does not produce the compilere error. But when I call the stored procedure I get error "Error converting data type numeric to numeric"
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>>Can you post the stored procedure code?
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>>It sounds like you are trying to cast something that is already Decimal.
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>You are absolutely correct. I commented the link of setting the SqlDbType and all works. Since I was setting the value to 0.00 it was already decimal. Thank you very much.

This is strange and I don't think it explains the problem well. It should work fine with setting type of the parameter also.