Hi Bonnie,

LOL. Of course. But Bob's comment on this was realted to VFP ( see below ) which is why I replied so whoever was reading would know that you can get the return value in VFP. :-)

Bill

>Bill,
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>That may work fine for VFP, but we're talking .NET here. <g>
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>>>An OUTPUT parameter and a return value are two seperate things. Generally getting values back from an SP you use an Output parameter reserving the RETURN value for error handling. I have to admit, since in VFP you can't get access to the return value without using ADO, I never use it.