It sounds to me like oCompany hasn't been instantiated yet.

~~Bonnie

>I have stepped through it, i never get into the this.oCompnay object. It bombs right away.
>I have removed the ds in front of it, and it bombs.
>I have tested the storeproc from with in the VS.IDE server manager and it returns the right results.
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>It also compiles fine, it is only at runtime.
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>Thanks!
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>>Hi, Shawn,
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>>Generally, that error means that you're trying to refer to an object that hasn't been instantiated.
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>>I can't tell from the code if the error refers to the dataset or the object reference 'oCompany'. Maybe the dataset has a null reference because the stored proc errored out...or maybe oCompany isn't set.
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>>If you step through the code one line at a time and set a watch on those two things, that might help.
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>>Kevin