Thanks! worked great.

__Stephen

>Stephen,
>
>You need to set the Checked property of the Checkbox to the DataBinder expression:
>
>

>Checked='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.Discontinued")   '
>

>
>P.S. The less-than symbol shows above as "<". Make sure you use the symbol instead.
>
>>I have a template column :
>>{Columns}
>>{asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Print">
>>{ItemTemplate>
>>{asp:Checkbox id="chkreleases" Runat="server" /> {%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "ap_noprint") '
>>{/asp:Checkbox>
>>{/ItemTemplate>
>>{/asp:TemplateColumn>
>>{asp:BoundColumn DataField="ap_part" HeaderText="PTO Model">
>>{ItemStyle Wrap="False">{/ItemStyle>
>>{/asp:BoundColumn>
>>{/Columns>
>>
>>I see a checkbox NOT checked and I see the word True' next to it? How do I get a check to apear in the checkbox and NO translation of the BIT into English?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>__Stephen