after your insert, add the following: Select SCOPE_IDENTITY() as NewestRecordsID

I'm guessing that this is a seperate class file from your ASP web form. Try adding Imports System.Web to the top of your DataAccess class file. BTW: Your data layer classes, properly written, shouldn't care about what type of application is using them. Your code is using a web application Lock method where it shouldn't have to. The data layer should never have this kind of dependancy. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

You can set up a base class hierarchy for the code behinds, but not for the HTML pages. Your .aspx pages will need to be copied from a template page or use #includes (from Classic ASP) to include the common elements. Creating the inheritance hierarchy doing this sometimes creates issues for the design view in Visual Studio. The end result forces you to modify the pages in code view instead of design view. -BC

Hi there, From what I see in your code, the reason it doesn't work is that you didn't declare the handler for the ItemCommand event of the Repeater properly. The correct one should be like this: Private Sub rptResults_ItemCommand(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterCommandEventArgs) Handles rptResults.ItemCommand Dim ad_id As String ad_id = e.CommandArgument End Sub The Handles rptResults.ItemCommand is missing. For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbtskCreatingEventHandlersInWebFormsPages.asp[^]