>>It doesn't work because the compiler knows that when you add 2 shorts together you could overflow (so it needs an int/Int32 to store the result). It wants you to specifically cast the result of the addition to a (short) before it gets assigned to newSuffix so it knows that you understand the consequences that you could possibly lose data. If you want it as one line:
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>>newSuffix = Convert.ToInt16(lastLocSuffix) + 1;
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>Thanks, Paul. I think I tried that version already and got the same problem. Two lines assignment works.

Doh! Yeah, I messed that up when I tested it. I set newSuffix as an int, not a short. BTW - you never actually said what type lastLocSuffix was.