.NET Book Zero p.53

The minimum and maximum value of an int is –2,147,483,648...2,147,483,647

You are trying to store 2,500,000,000 and because you haven't used the checked operator it is overflowing.

Yup either use a larger data type that can hold your values or use the checked csc compiler flag.
use csc /? at the command line for a list of all the compiler flags.

You can also use the checked operator if you want to make sure it doesn't overflow.

int i = 50000;try{    Console.WriteLine(checked(i * i));}catch (OverflowException){    Console.WriteLine("Overflow Exception");    // TODO: Write clever exception     // handling code.}

As you can see this code throws a System.OverflowException when the output overflows.

[Edited by - DarkTimes on July 25, 2007 4:18:19 AM]

ah ok
thanks :)