>Dave,

>When you say "data does not appear", do you mean at design time (preview), or at >runtime?

when I press the green vcr arrow button to run the application in debug mode it does not appear.
When I build the application into an exe file it also does not appear.

>Even if you design a report against a typed dataset, you still have to "push" the >actual data into the report at runtime.

Thanks for that insight...
how do I "push the actual data into the report"

>Kevin