Hi Bill, I now understand *binding* more than I did and now have a solution - thanks for your help

Pete


>Hey Bonnie,
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>Yes, this is why I suggested he look at ReadValue() and WriteValue() because he was doing a programmatic update of the control which requires a post of the data to the data source.
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>Bill
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>>>I thought the whole point of DataBinding was to automate this sort of behaviour.
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>>It is. I don't know why you'd have to do this if you've properly databound those controls. I thought the problem you initially wrote about was because you programmatically changed the value in a control (say, a TextBox.Text) and you needed to use the .WriteValue() for that reason, for one or two controls perhaps.
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>>If you're regularly clearing the values in all your controls by the below methodology (setting all TextBox.Text = ""), then your problem is actually that you shouldn't be doing it that way. Those TextBoxes are bound to a DataTable ... you should be clearing the data in the DataTable row and those empty values will then be shown in your TextBoxes.
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>>~~Bonnie
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>>>Hi all, just to update you on what I ended up coding ( please advise if there's a cleaner way )
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>>>

>>>// This method clears the controls values.
>>>
>>>this.txtFirstName.Text = "";
>>>this.txtMiddleName.Text = "";
>>>// And so on for the other controls.
>>>
>>>// Loop to WriteValues to dataset
>>>
>>>for(int i = 0 ; i < this.Controls.Count ; i++)
>>>    if(this.Controls[i].DataBindings.Count > 0)
>>>        for(int j = 0 ; j < this.Controls[i].DataBindings.Count  ; j++)
>>>            this.Controls[i].DataBindings[j].WriteValue();
>>>

>>>
>>>I thought the whole point of DataBinding was to automate this sort of behaviour. Once again, thanks for your help.