I am following the example using Visual Studio 2002, and have had the "HasRows" problem Which occurs on page 104, and 132 there may be other pages, I haven't got that far yet!

My question is, how was this issue tackled before the "HasRow" property was added? In other words what is the correct way to return the number of rows in Visual Studio 2002?

I realize that this is not necessary for the example, but if possible, I would like to have the code working perfectly.

Any response or comment Appreciated.

The HasRows property is merely a nice property to quickly determine if the DataReader contains any data to be read. Before the HasRows property you actually had to invoke the Read method of the DataReader and go through your logic and test to see if the DataReader returned any data.

As you can see, the HasRows property merely cuts out a few steps in your processing making your application more effeicent.

Thearon

It's OK, I got it licked! I have upgraded to Visual Studio 2003.....!