Chris,

The cleanest way to do this is to create a class that contains two public properties, an integer and a dataset. Return an instance of that class from the function and test the dataset property for Nothing.

>Hi!
>
>Is there some way to do this?
>
>

>Public Function MyFunction() As Integer or As Dataset
>if blah then
>return dataset
>else
>return 1 'integer value of some kind
>end if
>End Function
>

>
>Thanks