>>when I try that I get a message that I cannot implicitly convert the value to a string so I need to add ".ToString()".
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>>Is that expected?
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>Sorry Frank, I goofed. My bad ... it should have been:
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>string connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["QueueLocal"].ConnectionString;
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>~~Bonnie

No probs, thanks for the correction.