C# ?: Conditional Operator

Question

I have this extract of C# 2.0 source code:

object valueFromDatabase;
decimal result;
valueFromDatabase = DBNull.Value;

result = (decimal)(valueFromDatabase          


        

Answer 1

Unless I'm mistaken (which is very possible) its actually the 0 that's causing the exception, and this is down to .NET (crazily) assuming the type of a literal so you need to specify 0m rather than just 0.

See MSDN for more info.