Decimal value is not valid for price. MVC3

Question

Product.cs

...
    [Required(ErrorMessage="Price is required")]
    [Range(0.01, 100000.00,
        ErrorMessage="Price must be between 0.01 and 100000.00")]
    public decimal Price { get; set; }
...

When I enter '89.48', form is giving 'The value '89.48' is not valid for Price'. I think this is becuase of default language of my PC. It is not English. It is Russian.

I tried to solve this issue by haacked.com instructions:

1. I have created Model class DecimalModelBinder and copied code from haacked.com into class

2. Updated Global.asax with

   ModelBinders.Binders.Add(typeof(decimal), new DecimalModelBinder());
   

   No effect. Then I tried to fix it by client-side validation 1.Added JavaScript file called "jQueryFixes.js" with code

$.validator.methods.range = function (value, element, param) {
    var globalizedValue = value.replace(",", ".");
    return this.optional(element) || (globalizedValue >= param[0] && globalizedValue <= param[1]);
}

$.validator.methods.number = function (value, element) {
    return this.optional(element) || /^-?(?:\d+|\d{1,3}(?:[\s\.,]\d{3})+)(?:[\.,]\d+)?$/.test(value);
}

This code did not solve this issue. Can you suggest what I am doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I set in web.config

<system.web>
    <globalization uiCulture="en-US" culture="en-US"/>
<system.web>

this solution worked for me, i was getting the same error

Answer 2

Replace with this in your DecimalModelBinder class.

//if with period use InvariantCulture
if (valueResult.AttemptedValue.Contains("."))
{
    actualValue = Convert.ToDecimal(valueResult.AttemptedValue,
    CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
else
{
    //if with comma use CurrentCulture
    actualValue = Convert.ToDecimal(valueResult.AttemptedValue,
    CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);
}

Solution comes from this link.

Answer 3

try this

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Price is required")]
    [Range(typeof(decimal), "0.01", "100000.00", ErrorMessage = "enter decimal value")]
    [RegularExpression(@"^\[0-9]{1,6}\.[0-9]{2}$", ErrorMessage="enter decimal value of format $9.99")]
    public decimal Price { get; set; }

Should help.

Answer 4

At Global.asax file using below code is solved my problem for Turkish language

protected void Application_BeginRequest()
{
    var cultureInfo = new CultureInfo("tr-TR");
    cultureInfo.NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator = ".";
    System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = cultureInfo;
    Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = cultureInfo;
}

Answer 5

try this:

[Required(ErrorMessage = "Price is required")]
[DataType(DataType.Currency)]
public decimal Price { get; set; }