What type is Number field?

Question

I have a Field, that has Type="Number". What type of variables can I assign to it? Will the field support float or double?

oListItem["numberField"] = data;

What type can data be?

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Answer 1

Could be Double or Decimal or Integer.

Use the ParseAndSetValue method to make sure it converts it to Double (see here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfieldnumber.parseandsetvalue.aspx)