Hi Dave,

Great minds think alike <g> ... but *I* beat *you* to the reply this time. =)

~~Bonnie

>John,
>
>>Error: Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'decimal'
>
>My syntax might not be right and I might be misunderstanding "casting" (I'm not a C# expert), but can you force a conversion to decimal in the return statement... something like this?
>

>return (decimal)b.getbalance(custNumber);
>

>Or perhaps store the return value to a var first that is forced to decimal, then return that?
>

>decimal retvalue = (decimal)b.getbalance(custNumber);
>return retvalue;
>