Hi Kevin,
I noticed an error in my orig post... should have been string MyNum.

Having changed this, and applied your change, which I assume converts int to string I got a:

Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'string'

Regards,
Gerard



>Hey, Gerard,
>
>Try this...
>
>

>int MyNum;
>MyNum = int.Parse(dr["num_nexta"].ToString());
>

>
>Hope that helps...
>Kevin