> I need a series of textboxes which will accept currency amounts. Nothing
> strange here, just want the text to be formatted in such a way that the
text
> stored in the edit control is a decimal value or at least something I can
> easily extract a decimal value from to be stored in an SQL table, but all
> the while displaying it to a user as a string like $x,xxx.xx. Ideally, it
> should disallow any alpha characters and only allow numerics.

> Anybody know how to do this?

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> TW
> (is it safe to come out?)

> Is it sounding like I am going to have to inherit from the
> Windows.Forms.Textbox and implement the stuff I need? If so, great
> opportunity for Custom Control developers in this group!