>IMBVHO (in my beginner's very humble opinion) a lot of the DataSet and DataAdapter code generated by VS is bueno. My guess is taking it as a starting point for a data handling class, or classes, then breaking the UI-data layer link, would be a good way to go, no?

Maybe ... <g> I have not looked at what gets generated by doing that in a very long time, so I can't comment on whether it's good or not. If I had some free time, I'd test it out and see what gets generated nowadays, but I'm a bit swamped at the moment.

~~Bonnie