>Don't understand the question. If the type is Int16 then it's Int16 - where does decimal come into it ?
>

What I wanted is a way to determine if the type is numeric or not so I can apply input type ="number" instead of just the textbox and not allow to type letters.


>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>This is more of a C# language question, but I want to implement this logic in the razor view.
>>
>>I found that for my case the ViewData.ModelMetadata.ModelType returned Int16.
>>
>>So, this is what I started to write
>>
>>

>>@if (ViewData.ModelMetadata.ModelType.ToString()
>>

>>
>>And I am not sure how to finish it. I want to test it against (first 3 chars to be Int or other numerical types (I guess I need to test for decimal)?
>>
>>Do you know what is the best way to implement this logic?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>-----------------------
>>By some googling on this topic I found this
>>
>>

>>Type objType = typeof(T);
>>
>>    if (objType.IsPrimitive)
>>    {
>>        return (objType != typeof(bool) && 
>>            objType != typeof(char) && 
>>            objType != typeof(IntPtr) && 
>>            objType != typeof(UIntPtr)) ||
>>            objType == typeof(decimal);
>>    }
>>

>>
>>in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1130698/checking-if-an-object-is-a-number-in-c-sharp
>>
>>Do you think I can somehow apply that code to my case?