Gets or Sets a boolean flag to indicate whether to preserve the scale within a Decimal value when it would have no effect on the represented value. Note: a 2m value and a 2.00m value represent the same value but internally they are stored differently - the former has a value of 2 and a scale of 0 and the latter has a value of 200 and a scale of 2. The scaling factor also preserves any trailing zeroes in a Decimal number. Trailing zeroes do not affect the value of a Decimal number in arithmetic or comparison operations. However, trailing zeroes can be revealed by the ToString method if an appropriate format string is applied. From a serialization point of view, the former will take 2 bytes whereas the latter would take 4 bytes, therefore it is preferable to not save the scale where it doesn't affect the represented value.

public bool PreserveDecimalScale { get; set; }

Public Property PreserveDecimalScale As Boolean
	Get
	Set