Kevin,
You need to supply column's position (ordinal) for GetValue().

sRecVal = oReader.GetValue(intOrdinalOfDesiredColumn)
Cetin

>Ok, here's my code so far:
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>sSQLCommand = "select " & _sSearchField & _
>  "from " & _sSearchAlias & _
>  "where " & _sSearchField & " like% " & _
>  sTextVal
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>' Create the command object, passing the SQL query string and a reference
>' to the connection object
>oCommand = New OleDbCommand(sSQLCommand, _oConnection)
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>' Execute the command to get the data
>oReader = oCommand.ExecuteReader()
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>' Read in the value from the table
>oReader.Read()
>sRecVal = oReader.GetValue()
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>I'm getting the error:
>'Argument not specified for parameter 'ordinal' of 'Public Overridable NotOverridable
>Function GetValue(ordinal As Integer) As Object'.
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>>I think opening a connection and doing a query every time will be very expensive, and unnecessary.
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>>If the table you're querying against isn't very large, you could pull down the results one time....and then execute an ADO.NET rowfilter everytime the user types something.
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>>Or, you could have the user type as much info as they want, and then click a search button. You could bring back all the matches (even partial matches), and display them in a listbox or a grid.
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>>Just some random thoughts....
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>>The textbox in VS.NET 2005 supports AutoComplete - I haven't looked into it in any detail, however.
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>>Kevin