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December 17th, 2003, 08:42 PM

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I am ADO .NET newbie.
I have a datareader that retrieves records from SQL server.
when i do this I get errors:
valStr = (string)sqlReader.GetSqlString(4);
valStr = (string)sqlReader.GetDecimal(4);

What can be done?

TIA
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December 18th, 2003, 09:32 AM

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valStr = (string)sqlReader.GetString(4);

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