Stephen,

>I am taking empty fileds and populating them via:
>MmTextBox2.BindingSource = "SecurityCl1";
>MmTextBox2.BindingSourceMember = "em_first";
>MmTextBox2.Text = (dsEmployee.Tables["employee"].Rows[0]["em_first"].ToString());
>MmTextBox2.DataBind() ;

Cathi Gero's response to you is correct...in fact you don't have to write any of this code if you use the MM .NET builders. There is a builder for setting both the BindingSource and BindingSource Member. The text property is set automatically at runtime, and so is the call to DataBind. All of the typing you're currently doing for data binding is the main reason I made it all automatic so you don't have to write any code!

Check out the MM .NET Help topic: "Data Binding Mere Mortals Web Form Controls" in Chapter 6.

Regards,