Bill,

>I'm using IDataReaders in my business objects to bind to certain grids and I notice that the HasRows property is apart of the specific class (System.Data.OleDb.OlDbDataReader) but not the Interface (System.Data.IDataReader).
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>I would have thought that the HasRows property would have been a good condidate for the Interface implementation, but no one else seems to be complaining so I assume that I'm in the dark about this subject.
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>Is there an easy way to determine if the IDataReader has rows without casting the reader to the specific class (which would defeat the purpose of the Interface in the first place)?

That IS lame, isn't it? There's really no good way to figure this out generically without casting.

Regards,