A colleagues come in and helped me. As I thought it was me being dumb. Simply changing the Public class topics.category to an ArrayList rather than an array and changed the read to:

CG.Category = New ArrayList
Do While (DR.Read())
'Temp.Add(DR.It em("name"))
CG.Category.Add (DR.Item("name" ))
Loop

Thanks very...

I do indeed mate. Thanks very much! The power of social networks eh?

As usual I wont have explained it very well. Please bear in mind I've not done any coding since being a student and even then it was only Pascal so I may have some fundamentals very wrong.

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