Hi Jim,

The default use of Session State needs cookies enabled on the browser. If you don't have that enabled, then you will need to use the cookieless setting in the config file. If sounds like your session state is not being saved between pages. I would debug the code to confirm this.

>Cathi,
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> Thanks for the suggestion. I almost have it. Here is what I tried. 1. I placed the code below in the load event and it doesn't work. The "Specified cast is Invalid exception" is thrown. 2. I also placed the same code in a method and call the method from the load event of the form, I get the same exception. 3. If I place the code in a click event of a button, the code works when the button is clicked. Why am I getting the Specified cast is not valid message?
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> Try
>    dsResults = CType(Session("dsSearchResults"), DataSet)
>    setMessage("There were " + dsResults.Tables(0).Rows.Count.ToString + " record(s) found!")
> Catch exp As Exception
>     setMessage(exp.Message)
> End Try
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>Thanks
>
>Jim