No I didn't and you're right. I expected what should naturally be there to be there:)

MessageBox.Show( (string)((DataRowView)dr.DataBoundItem).Row["town"] );
// or
MessageBox.Show( ((myDS.myTbRow)((DataRowView)dr.DataBoundItem).Row).town );
// or if you know the index
MessageBox.Show((string)dr.Cells[index].Value);

BindingSource sounded to be a better alternative to me too. However unless I was doing it wrong it is no less work. Would you share the syntax? Mine looked like:

string v1 = ((myDS.myTbRow)((DataRowView)myTbBindingSource.Current).Row).town;
string v2 = (string)((DataRowView)myTbBindingSource.Current).Row["town"];

Both doesn't look like less work than using dr.DataBoundItem. dr.DataBoundItem and myTbBindingSource.Current both point to same thing.
Probably I could never find the appropriate syntax. There should be an easier and direct way:)
Cetin

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DataGridViewRow dr = myDataGridView.CurrentRow;
>MessageBox.Show( (string)dr["town"]

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>Hi, Cetin...
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>Just a side-note, did you try that code? I still use the BindingContext position and the current view of the source data, but I gave it a try.
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>I got an error as well - unless I'm missing something, the DataGridViewRow object doesn't seem to have a direct indexer. I had to do the following:
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DataGridViewRow dr = myDataGridView.CurrentRow;
>MessageBox.Show(  Convert.ToString( dr.Cells["MyColDataGridViewTextBoxColumn"]));
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>                           // is the "GridViewTextBoxColumn needed?   Don't know
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>// or
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>MessageBox.Show(  Convert.ToString( dr.Cells[ColNumber]));

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>At any rate, I still prefer the binding context (assuming it's bound data). Plus which, I don't think the DataGridViewRow will work if you want to reference a column in the source data that isn't displayed in the grid.
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>Kevin