>>Trying to get an editable GridView to work in a Web form -
>>
>>here's the GridView definition
>>

>>    asp:GridView ID="GV1" runat="server" AutoGenerateEditButton="True" 
>>        OnRowEditing = "GV1_RowEditing"
>>        OnRowUpdating = "GV1_RowUpdating"
>>        CellPadding="10" CellSpacing="10" BorderStyle="Solid" 
>>        HorizontalAlign="Center" Caption="DashBoard Configuration Settings" 
>>        CaptionAlign="Top">
>>        <EditRowStyle BackColor="#9999FF" />
>>    /asp:GridView>
>>

>>
>>Everything I've read says that in the GV1_RowEditing event all I need is
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>>       protected void GV1_RowEditing(object sender, GridViewEditEventArgs e)
>>        {
>>            GV1.EditIndex = e.NewEditIndex;
>>            GV1.DataSource = GVSet;
>>            GV1.DataBind();
>>        }
>>

>>
>>And the Gird should show up with the input equivalents for the fields....However nothing shows after I click on the 'Edit' - no Grid, nada, nichts, nils
>>
>>With the exception of one forum post, I did notice that most everyone explicitly defines the columns for the Grid. Is that required in order to do what I want to do?
>>
>>Thanks
>
>Did you try setting the autogenerate property to True?

AutoGenerate defaults to True. We finally figured out that the DataSet that actually held the data was getting lost....out there somewhere....in the weeds, or something - it's .Net, who knows?