Record Affected from store procedure

Hi, To my understanding when I use cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); (for Insert, Update, and Delete ) I get the number of records affectedvia this code>>>> int RecAffected = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();..... what about if I want to get the numbers of rows from cmd.ExecuteReader() where I call a stored procedure and the store procedure (SP) get me the row affected.. here is the sp code code from my sp>>>>> select PersonID, fName,lName, dob, Sal,country, Active ,Photo from Person where country = @Country RETURN @@ROWCOUNT but I get the following error Object reference not set to an instance of an object. so when I call this method, I want to get results and return value . this is my code >>>> protected void Person_SELECT_RecAccount() { // with explicit parameter wehre I can determine para direction // return values is @@rowAffected // output para is iden ...