int.Parse oddity

Hi all:

I am trying to parse numeric input a user provides on a web site.

I am having a problem with dollar amounts. The following command results in an OverflowException:

int.Parse("77,500.50", NumberStyles.Currency, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)

but all of the following commands do not:

int.Parse("77,500.00", NumberStyles.Currency, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)
int.Parse("77,50050", NumberStyles.Currency, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)
decimal.Parse("77,500.50", NumberStyles.Currency, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)

Note: the current culture is "en-US".

I understand that the integer can't hold the decimal portion of the number, but according to the documentation (.NET 2.0), an OverflowException is thrown if

"s represents a number less than MinValue or greater than MaxValue"

The resulting number is obviously not too large or small to fit in an integer.

I can work around this, but I think that the Framework should handle this situation better.

Thanks,

SA.