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

That other way is simple to Convert.ToDecimal(dsQuery["mycol"]), as well. I'm not sure if that will error if it is null or not, but you can give it a try.

Morgan