Hi Pete,

Perhaps checking out the DataBinding Class WriteValue() and ReadValue() methods will help.

Bill

>Hi all, I need a bit of help understanding why a call to Dataset.Haschanges() returns false. I have a form with several textboxes bound to a Dataset. I create the bindings thus:
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>this.txtFirstName.DataBindings.Add("Text",this.dsNames,"AFieldName");
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>and so on for the other textboxes. Here is the Gotcha !, if I manually change any of the textboxes values by typing , the call to "HasChanges()" correctly returns true, But ! , if I set the values in code e.g.
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>this..txtFirstName.Text = "";
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> the call to "HasChanges()" returns false. Any ideas ?