I have been reading in help how I need to use decimal becuase currency does
not exist like I used in vb6.
I had a difficult time on google and msdn finding how or if I can take the
value of text box as decimal or do I just have to make another decimal
variable
. So I took a guess hoping CDec would come up blue if I type it in with no
squigglies on the line. But is this actually converting it to decimal.

Next if so, I do not like the out put to the textboxes
Total: 100
Tax: 4.500    I need it formatted as 4.50
Gross: 95.5  
Split: 48     This is not accurate, it is rounding, It should be of course
half of 95.5,  47.75

<code>
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
  ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCalc.Click
       'Button 1 Calculate
       Const Tax As Decimal = 0.045
       Dim a As Integer
       For a = 1 To 5
           lblTotal.Text = CDec(Val(lblTotal.Text)) +
CDec(Val(txtCoinsInArray(a).Text))
       Next
       If chkUncleSam.Checked = True Then
           lblTax.Text = CDec(Val(lblTotal.Text)) * Tax
       End If
       lblGross.Text = CDec(Val(lblTotal.Text)) - CDec(Val(lblTax.Text))
       lblSplit.Text = CDec(Val(lblGross.Text)) \ 2
   End Sub
End Class
</code>