>>>The help file says that Columns is a collection
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>>>see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.datacolumncollection.contains(VS.71).aspx
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>>Thanks again. I should have checked the link first.
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>I thought you wanted to check first whether the column existed in order to void the error on the remove

I wanted to figure out why the column didn't exist, since it should, but as a defensive measure I also added this check (changed to Contains right now - yesterday was using !=null instead - and this is after I already read 4 chapters in C# book :()

Anyway, thanks a lot again.