I guess I'm stuck into it now!

>DOH! I did it again. I didn't even see the MM category tag. I don't know anything about it and don't plan to use it. The framework costs as much as the developemnt suite.
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>>John,
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>>Yes, the data in the DataRow columns are always of object type. If you were using a Typed DataSet (and not knowing the MM Framework, I don't know if it supports this or not), then it would be strongly typed and you wouldn't have to worry so much about casting (or using .ToString()).
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>>~~Bonnie
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>>>This is where I'm still having trouble undestanding what's going on. The dr["c"] type is an object when you look at it in the debugger, even though it contains a string type. I had to cast it to a string to get it to work for me.