Justin Pitts
10/17/2002 10:06:00 PM
This error went unexplained for us for nearly 2 weeks. We were getting it
intermittently while accessing databases on an AS/400. The solution for us
was upgrading to the latest service release of
Client Access - the ODBC driver for the AS/400.
HTH
Justin Pitts
"S. Justin Gengo" <gengoj@krause.com> wrote in message
news:uof8m5mfj42qc7@corp.supernews.com...
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone explain this error?
>
> There was an error: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a
> correct format. at System.Number.ParseDecimal(String s, NumberStyles
style,
> NumberFormatInfo info) at System.Decimal.Parse(String s, IFormatProvider
> provider) at Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataReader.internalGetDecimal(Int32
i)
> at Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataReader.GetValue(Int32 i, TypeMap typemap)
at
> Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataReader.GetValue(Int32 i) at
> Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataReader.get_Item(Int32 i) at
> DotNetTestGround.WebForm1.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in
> c:\inetpub\wwwroot\DotNetTestGround\WebForm1.aspx.vb:line 32
>
> I'm receiving the above error on and off with a datareader sending the
> results to a label. I receive a similar error when using a datagrid, but
it
> didn't seem as informative. The strange thing is that sometimes
everything
> works perfectly and then if I refresh a few time I get this error for a
> while, then fine again...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!!!!!
>
>