>Just remember, as a general rule of thumb, almost everything is an object being returned from framework functions. If you're trying to stick it into a type other than object, you will probably need to cast it to the type you want.

That's probably a little too broad of a generalization John ... although I never took inventory or anything. <g>

Linda, as a better rule of thumb, use Intellisense to see what the method returns. If it returns an object, then you'll need to cast it.

~~Bonnie