>>FWIW, casting to (int) gives me a runtime error -- "Specified cast is not valid"-- even though the object is not null.<

Kelly,

From your original post, you said the data column was decimal, so I assume you want to cast it to decimal, not int. I bet that will work just fine.

~~Bonnie




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>If I try to cast (int)dsQuery["mycol"].ToString() (not your suggestion, just something I tried), I get a compile error about not being able to cast from string to int -- which is why I think I ended up doing the Int32.Parse(Column.ToString()) earlier.
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>>The other way is to cast the object to an int
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>>(int)dsQuery["SalesMin"] > 0
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>>You will run into problems if you are trying to cast a null object though.
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>>Morgan