>In my web application I have 3 tables, EducationalActivities, EducationProviders, and EducationalActivitiesEducationProvidersXRef. As the names may tell you, the XRef is a cross reference table between the Activities and the Providers. I need to display the information as follows:
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> _____ Provider #1
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> _____ Provider #2
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> _____ Provider #3
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>With the underscores being text boxes to hold the count for each Provider.
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>How can I do this?

Where is your data? On SQL Server, or a similar DBMS?

If that's the case, you may use (as the CommandText) the following expression:

SELECT prov.ProviderId, count(xref.ProviderId) as Count
FROM EducationProviders prov
LEFT JOIN EducationalActivitiesEducationProvidersXRef xref
ON prov.ProviderId xref.ProviderId
GROUP BY ProviderId

That will return all Providers (even those with Count=0)
If you don't want the zeros, replace the LEFT JOIN with an INNER JOIN

Hope this helps
Jose.