Excellent.... That worked great, but why do I need to set the value to null in the console app and not in the Windows Forms app????

I have the following code snippet in a C# console application and am getting the following error in VS2008 on the last line (bool recExists = myReader.HasRows): Error 2 Use of unassigned local variable 'myReader' Here's the code: string sResponse; SqlDataReader myReader; // Check existence of tracking record sQuery = "Select * from tracking where shipper_id = '" + sShipperId + "' AND shipper_ack = '" + sShipperAck + "'"; myCommand1 = new SqlCommand(sQuery, conn); try { myReader = myCommand1.ExecuteReader(); } catch (Exception e2) { conn.Close(); conn.Dispose(); sResponse = e2.GetBaseException().ToString() + " " + sQuery; } **bool recExists = myReader.HasRows**; I use this same identical code in a Windows Client app with no problems. What am I missing???? Thanks, Dave