String to decimal conversion: dot separation instead of comma

All this is about cultures. If you have any other culture than "US English" (and also as good manners of development), you should use something like this:

var d = Convert.ToDecimal("1.2345", new CultureInfo("en-US"));
// (or 1,2345 with your local culture, for instance)

(obviously, you should replace the "en-US" with the culture of your number local culture)

the same way, if you want to do ToString()

d.ToString(new CultureInfo("en-US"));

Instead of replace we can force culture like

var x = decimal.Parse("18,285", new NumberFormatInfo() { NumberDecimalSeparator = "," });

it will give output 18.285

Thanks for all reply.

Because I have to write a decimal number in a xml file I have find out the problem. In this discussion I have learned that xml file standard use dot for decimal value and this is culture independent. So my solution is write dot decimal number in a xml file and convert the readed string from the same xml file mystring.Replace(".", ","); Thanks Agat for suggestion to research the problem in xml context and Ε Г И І И О because I didn't know visual studio doesn't respect the culture settings I have in my code.

I ended up using this solution.

decimal weeklyWage;
decimal.TryParse(items[2],NumberStyles.Any, new NumberFormatInfo() { NumberDecimalSeparator = "."}, out weeklyWage);

You are viewing your decimal or double values in Visual Studio. That doesn't respect the culture settings you have on your code.

Change the Region and Language settings on your Control Panel if you want to see decimal and double values having the comma as the decimal separator.