Naomi, I believe you want to look at Decimal.Parse and Int.Parse.

>Thanks a lot, this is going to work splendid, but now I'm getting this error
>

> _drItem.Price = (decimal)this.txtPrice.Text; // doesn't compile
>        _drItem.Qty = (int)this.txtQty.Text; //doesn't compile
>
>Error	4	Cannot convert type 'string' to 'int'	W:\sdc\SDCBarcodeScannerProject\SDCBarcodeScannerProject\SDCBarcodeScannerDeviceClient\OrdersEntryForm.cs	568	23	SDCBarcodeScannerDeviceClient
>
>

>>Hi,
>>
>>May be something like this:
>>

>>  // DataSet Orders = new DataSet();  // What ever DataSet that it is ...
>>  ...
>>
>>  bool isAnyRec = false;
>>  foreach (DataTable myDT in Orders.Tables)
>>      if (myDT.Rows.Count() > 0)
>>      {
>>          isAnyRec = true;
>>          break;
>>      }
>>
>>  ...
>>  if( !  isAnyRec )
>>      Orders.Tables["Details"].Rows.Add( myDataRow );
>>

>>
>>
>>> I want to be able to have my Add button to add a record into the Orders DS if I don't have a record there and then add record to the Details table.
>>
>>> My question is - how can I check if I already have records in Orders DS or not?