Hi,

Although I'm not familiar with VB.NET, here's my take on it...

Procedures need to be executed with:

EXECUTE PROCEDURE <name> (param1, .. paramn) [ RETURNING_VALUES paramout1,
paramoutn

Or via a SELECT for select-able procedures:

SELECT outparam FROM <name>(input-params)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com