I am new to programming and VB 2005 and am currently writing a program that accesses several XML databases and uses the info from them. I have the program accessing and updating the databases perfectly thanks to the Beginning VB 2005. I am having a problem getting the program to pick data out of the databases and use them in calculations. Is there a chapter of the book that will assist or perhaps another book one of the more advanced Wrox VB books?

Are your data coming through a connection object? If so there is an .ExecuteScalar() function that returns a single value. Might be helpful . . .

I found this in Visual Studio Help in a page titled “Executing a Data Command that Returns a Single Value.”