No Michel the sam prb was that he wasn't casting the datarow to the int, in c# you always need to cast to the specific type like you do in VB.NET when you have option strict on, I always use option strict on and recomend to anyone one using vb.net to do the same since it can help you find prbs on your app while your developing.

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>I think this is related because this is not a datarow. I would suggest you use a datarow as you will be able to deal directly with the content of the field as is.
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>As soon as you have a dataset, you can scroll into it like this:
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>        For lnCounter = 0 To lnYourRecordCountOfTheDataSetHere
>            loRow = loDataProvider.oDataSet.Tables(YourAlias).Rows(lnCounter)
>            lnAmount = loRow("MaxOrdAmt")
>        Next
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