>If I set the properties of my ComboBox control to:
>.BoundColumn = 2
>
>It should return the 'nID' value of the selected value. Well, it doesn't!
>I've done this many many times before but this time, for this one instance,
>the value returned is the position of the record!
This issue is why I bought the Hackers Guide to VFP 3.0 -- it's the only book I could find that explained what was going on here. :-)
Basically, it's by design: the BoundTo property was added in VFP5 so that you could bind to a numeric datatype and have it behave as characters do.