Thank goodness - I thought my ability to pass an instruction had failed miserably :)

>Because when I was checking out the BusinessBindingSource on the SF Forum I saw something that said I had to populate the BO before pointing the DataGridView to the BusinessBindingSource (or something to that effect), so I just blindly did that rather than doing the obvious and setting the properties in the designer, which works just fine!
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>Duh!!! :-/
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>Thanks again,
>...Jim
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>>>rather than my having to put code in the form's constructor?
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>>Why are you doing this? You don't need to for a BusinessBindingSource.