>>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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>This is nice as it allows strong typing down below. For example, in my case, if I wish to extract the month portion of a date, I cannot do it like that:
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>   lnMonth = loRow("Date").Month
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>but only like this
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>Dim ldDate AS Date = Date.Now
>ldDate = loRow("Date")
>lnMonth = ldDate.Month
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>I need to force the proper data type first into ldDate. Then, I can have it to lnMonth without having the compiler to complain.
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>Thanks for the additional information

Yes Michel but with option strict on you can do the following, you don't need all that code, you can just do

lnMonth = CDATE(loRow("Date")).Month