>Bonnie, you are a jewel.
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>I had used AddWithValue on in that example because I was trying to follow the example Naomi showed. However, I did not know about using ParameterDirection.InputOutput. Thanks a bunch, I am going to dig into the MM code now to figure out if there is something different that is needed to keep it working there.
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>Thanks again.
>Tim
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Tim,

You were not attentive to details. That example only used AddWithValue for the input parameter (@Category). For the output parameter it used Add method.