Hint: If you have to call .ToString more than twice in a single method, your design is showing signs of being flawed to the point of being unsalvageable and needs to be scrapped and your approach to the problem redesigned from scratch. Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles. Dave Kreskowiak

That happens when you declare an object (you mention just the type and object name) and leave it there, and later try to use it. You need to also use the new keyword followed by the object type before you can use the object (sometype somename = new sometype() that sort of thing, I don`t remember the exact C# syntax)