Hi Evan,

You need to cast the DataRow value to an int like the following:

(int)dsClinserv.Tables["cresult"].Rows[0]["fk_dept"];

>How can I get an interger value out of a dataset without converting to a string and then back to an integer? I am using the following (very rundundant) code. There must be a better way.
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>Convert.ToInt16(dsClinserv.Tables["cresult"].Rows[0]["fk_dept"].ToString())
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