Accessing Stored Procedure In ASP.Net - What Is Wrong?

I have the following stored procedure




drop procedure ce_selectCity;



set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
-- =============================================
-- Author:        <Author,,Name>
-- Create date: <Create Date,,>
-- Description:    <Description,,>
-- =============================================
create PROCEDURE ce_selectCity
    @recordCount int output
    -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here
    

    --<@Param2, sysname, @p2> <Datatype_For_Param2, , int> = <Default_Value_For_Param2,, 0>
AS

        declare @errNo         int
        
        -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
        -- interfering with SELECT statements.

        SET NOCOUNT ON;

        
            -- Insert statements for procedure here

        select ciId,name from ce_city order by name
        
        select @recordCount = @@ROWCOUNT
        select @errNo = @@ERROR

        if @errNo <> 0 GOTO HANDLE_ERROR

        return @errNo
HANDLE_ERROR:
    Rollback transaction
    return @errNo


Go


and i was just testing it like

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        db.connect()
        

        Dim reader As SqlDataReader

        Dim sqlCommand As New SqlCommand("ce_selectCity", db.getConnection)

        Dim recordCountParam As New SqlParameter("@recordCount", SqlDbType.Int)
        Dim errNoParam As New SqlParameter("@errNo", SqlDbType.Int)

        recordCountParam.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output
        errNoParam.Direction = ParameterDirection.ReturnValue

        sqlCommand.Parameters.Add(recordCountParam)
        sqlCommand.Parameters.Add(errNoParam)

        reader = db.runStoredProcedureGetReader(sqlCommand)

        If (db.isError = False And reader.HasRows) Then
            Response.Write("Total::" & Convert.ToInt32(recordCountParam.Value) & "<br />")
            While (reader.Read())
                Response.Write(reader("ciId") & "::" & reader("name") & "<br />")
            End While

        End If
        db.close()
    End Sub


It returns ALL ROWS (5 in the table right now). So, recordCount should be 5. (When i run it inside SQL Server (directly) it does return 5, so i know its working there).

BUT, its returning 0.

What am i doing wrong??

EDIT:
Oh, and this is the function i use to execute stored procedure and get the reader

Public Function runStoredProcedureGetReader(ByRef sqlCommand As SqlCommand) As SqlDataReader
            sqlCommand.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
            Return sqlCommand.ExecuteReader
        End Function