I never thought about trying it that way. Thanks Bonnie! I will give it a try.

>Mike,
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>If you want to continue using the IIF statement (which C# doesn't have, BTW), then you can do it like this:
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>IIF(dr.IsFieldNameNull,"",dr("FieldName"))
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>~~Bonnie
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>>So far this is my only complaint with Strongly Typed Datasets, and I hope it is just because of lack of knowledge.
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>>My datarow contains a decimal type field which is Null. I need to convert it to a string. When I try dr.FieldName.ToString I get a runtime error because it is DBNull. When I try dr.Item("FieldName").ToString, it works and I end up with an empty string.
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>>When I try IIF(dr.IsFieldNameNull,"",dr.FieldName), I get an runtime error because I am assuming it is evaluating both results.
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>>Before I have done a full IF statement, but that is going to really suck doing that for every field that could be Null. What is the recommended way of handling this?
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>>Thanks!