Question

we got regional related web client, where currency is set as in regional format, which we parse like:

bool result = decimal.TryParse(currencyValue, NumberStyles.Currency, myCulture, out value);

when we serialize this decimal to xml and decimal was previously parsed in myCulture=en-US, xmlserializer returns <Curr id="2" amnt="100000000.00"/> and deserialize it back to same number… but when we do it in sk-SK or cs-CZ it returns <Curr id="2" amnt="100000000,00"/> which returns *100 on deserialization (ignores comma)…

is there possibility to remove this regional from decimal, or make it invariant?
(if I don’t want to convert it to string and parse back again to handle regionals)

Answer 1

so I write answer to my own question, to can close this theme…

there was a new interesting point, what I get today morning after begin working. Problematic decimal was added to the distionary before serializing, which is a little bit problem, because IDictionary can;t be serialized, until it implement IXmlSerializable. There are two methods to override, ReadXml and WriteXml. And here is the goal, in WriteXml there was used decimalValue.ToString(), which makes the problem. I dont know why it is, but this .ToString() returns the missmatch results what I describe in question. I dont know, how it happens, because in testing project it works perfect, but in our full context don’t. But as agent Mulder believed, the truth is out there

So only what I need to do, was decimalValue.ToString() changing to decimalValue.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

thx for your time.