title: In VB.NET evaluate 0.70 to be equal to .7
body: <p>I am comparing a value that the user entered into a DataGridView cell - which, coming from an Editing Control will be a string to start with - with a decimal value from the data source (defined as decimal(3,2)).</p>
  
  <p>How can I evaluate a user-entered value of ".7", for example, to be equal to the database value of 0.70?</p>