Yikes! I didn't know it would be that involved! I'm just a loley Network guy with very little programming experience.

OK...there has to be a simpler solution. Brainstorm with me on this. I just want to take a username and password field and pass it to a stored procedure that I created in the DotNetNuke database. This new sp formats the password the values into another database that runs my email server (hMail). Can't we think of a way to do this? I was able to insert an exec command in a stored procedure, but the password had already been encrypted at that point and did me no good. So what do you think?

Hey echo...trying your code above again, I'm still not convinced I have the right connection string.  Below is my connection strings from my web.config; what would you make the connection string in that code snippet you posted?

  <connectionStrings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express -->
 <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=robinson-c8b57r\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;Initial Catalog=DotNetNuke" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>

  <appSettings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules   -->
 <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=robinson-c8b57r\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;Initial Catalog=DotNetNuke" />

Nope...tried that, didn't work.  Of course, not sure if it is the code, or what since I can't really "see" what is going on.

Here's what I got:

   Dim sConnStr As String =  ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("data").ConnectionString
   Dim cnBKTest As New SqlConnection(sConnStr)
   Dim cmdTest As New SqlCommand("DotNetNuke.dbo.aspnet_Membership_CreateUser_Email", cnBKTest)

   cmdTest.CommandType = Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure

   'Create Parameters
   cmdTest.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@UserName", Data.SqlDbType.VarChar, 10))
   cmdTest.Parameters("@UserName").Value = userControl.UserName
   cmdTest.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@Password", Data.SqlDbType.VarChar, 10))
   cmdTest.Parameters("@Password").Value = userControl.Password

   cnBKTest.Open()
   cmdTest.ExecuteNonQuery()
   cnBKTest.Close()