I've not used the new SqlDataSource class, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't pass it. How about posting some of the relevant code and maybe we can figure out what's going wrong.

~~Bonnie



>I've been trying to use the sqldatasource but I'm running into a problem. I want to create it on the backend in my data access layer. I have this.
>
>public class GetHospitals
>{
>string hospital;
>string hospitalid;
>sqldatasource batches;
>}
>
>I set all of its commands and its connection string and I am trying to send it to the presentation layer but always get an object not set to an instance of an object error. This worked fine when I was using a dataset but since I have switched to sqldatasource, its not working. Can I pass a sqldatasource? Any help on this would be helpful, thanks!