Kathi,

Great article.

One thing I wanted to add, which threw me for a loop a while back, is that if you use a return value when filling a datareader object that return value isn't available in vb.net code until after the datareader has iterated through all of its rows and closed. Which to me seems backwards. I always wanted to use the return value to make sure the SP didn't error-off and then run through my reader, but the return value isn't available until after I'd run through the reader. Weird.

George H.