>>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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>>~~Bonnie
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>Right... or handle the cellvalidated event in the base class, which is more generic. :).

Well, yes ... but you said you didn't want to do that, so I was looking for simple alternatives. <g>

Here's another sort of suggestion: if this had been a TextBox, I would have suggested using the Binding's Parse() event ... I don't use Grids all that much, so I'm not sure if there's a similar way of using the Parse() event with a grid cell, but it may be worth looking into ...

~~Bonnie



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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.