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Unfortunately to do so, it must rely on an exception to detect a invalid value which is a little bit of a performance hit.

public static bool IsCurrency(object value)

{

  bool returnValue = false;

  try

    {

      double check = double.Parse(value.ToString(), NumberStyles.Currency, 
	NumberFormatInfo.CurrentInfo);

      returnValue = true;

    }

  catch

    {}

  return returnValue;

}

I would excpect this code to work in normal C# applications too.

Tip Submitted By: David McCarter