You're right ... my bad. That's not the problem. The problem is the setting of your DisplayMember property ... you've mispelled your DisplayMember property ... either a typo or case ... remember that C# is case-sensitive.

~~Bonnie



>Yes I know, not in the click event.....
>
>but I'm testing out the listbox to see how it works (not well), I dont see how the dataset being called at the begining will make a difference as the same method works for a datagrid.