>You could always pad in your DataAcess class, before you actually save the field to the database table. Will that work for you?
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Right... or handle the cellvalidated event in the base class, which is more generic. :).
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>>Is there a way to update the underlying bindingsource of the cell that is current in cellValidating? (i.e. without handling the cellvalidated event)?
>>Assume you have a field that has 4 characters declared as string, but that contains a numeric value. If your user enters "5", you want to save " 5".
>>It seems that you can update all the other cells in the way I need , but not the one that is current. It makes sense, but it's a pain no less. Any suggestions? I would find it kind of overkill to implement cellvalidated just for this.
>>Thanks.