Paul Vick discusses Nullable Types in the Whidbey release of Visual Basichttp://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/06/05/149088.aspxYou may have been hearing a bit about nullable types in Whidbey (a feature in both VB and C#) but you should read this post by Paul to get an explanation of what they are, how they work and why they are useful... all from a VB point of view! The Truthen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)