How can I set the NumericUpDown Control to Infinity?

Question

I'd like to set the max value in the Winforms NumericUpDown control to infinity. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Don't think you can, but could do:

nmrUpDown.Maximum = decimal.MaxValue;

Which sets maximum allowed value to 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335

Answer 2

How to set it to infinity, if the value field only offers a decimal as return value?

Answer 3

Check out the Sine on codeplex.com you can do something like this:

BigNum x = 100;
BigNum xPow100 = x.Pow( 100 );
Console.WriteLine("100^100 == " + xPow100.ToString() );

But it's still cannot be infinity. The size of your RAM is your limitation.

Answer 4

You might consider to create your own user control that mimics the behaviour of a numeric up down. Simply use a TextBox and a vertical scroll bar (VScrollBar) and do some validation.

As your data type you could use a double, that would also format as "+/-Infinity" if the value exceeds the range.