You have the right idea, but the keyword int is equal to System.Int32 and you convert it using Conver.ToInt16 and the max value for Int16 is 32767. Use Conver.ToInt32 instead:

int nD1 = Convert.ToInt32(d1);
int nD2 = Convert.ToInt32(d2);

if (nD1 < nD2)
  MessageBox.Show("nD1 is less than nD2");
else
  MessageBox.Show("nD1 is NOT less than nD2");

Einar


>Sounds like it should be fairly simple...
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>int nD1 = Convert.ToInt16(d1);
>int nD2 = Convert.ToInt16(d2);
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>if (nD1 < nD2) {return -1;}
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