Nancy,
Thank you so much for the suggestion. I will try using ExecuteScalar().
>Dmitry-
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>>I am using ExecuteNonQuery(). Are you suggesting that I can call to SP using ExecuteScalar() and return a value?
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>Yep. That should do the trick for you. ExecuteNonQuery will always return the number of rows affected. ExecuteScalar will return the result of the Stored Procedure.
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>For example, I have a stored procedure that creates a record and returns the ID of the record similar to the help example,
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>Int32 id = (int32) ExecuteScalar();
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>HTH.
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