Int or Number DataType for DataAnnotation validation attribute

Question

On my MVC3 project, I store score prediction for football/soccer/hockey/... sport game. So one of properties of my prediction class looks like this:

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Answer 1

public class IsNumericAttribute : ValidationAttribute
{
    protected override ValidationResult IsValid(object value, ValidationContext validationContext)
    {
        if (value != null)
        {
            decimal val;
            var isNumeric = decimal.TryParse(value.ToString(), out val);

            if (!isNumeric)
            {                   
                return new ValidationResult("Must be numeric");                    
            }
        }

        return ValidationResult.Success;
    }
}