String to decimal in SSRS report

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I want to format the "printCode" field of salesinvoicereport to show only 2 decimal point. How to do it when printCode is a string type field and it's value are like: "20.0000" etc..

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Sohaib Cheema 49,438 User Group Leader on at

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=Format(CDbl(Fields!YourFieldWhichHasAmount.Value),"00.00")

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it gives the same result. printCode textBox is in footer

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what result it gives?

CDbl was to convert anything to decimal

Format was to format number

can you please explain bit more

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when report is opened it shows values like: "10,00000", "11,00000". This value comes from TaxSpec class, taxWriteCode() method.

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Sohaib Cheema 49,438 User Group Leader on at

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right click your Textbox of report/tablix and go to formatting, go to Number format and select custom enter n2,

redeploy and re-try by running report

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