Why thank you, Bonnie. I've gone ahead and passed a DataView to the form and it works just fine.


>Don,
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>AFAIK, you can't do it ... but I haven't searched really hard to see if I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure that you can DataBind only to a table or dataset. I'd recommend passing the table and row number to the form instead of the row itself ...
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>~~Bonnie
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>>Is there a way to bind a textbox .text property directly to a datarow or must this always be via a dataset?
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>>I'm passing a datarow as a parameter to a form and am using code like this:
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>>txtName.DataBindings.Add("Text", dr, "Name")
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>>Where "Name" is a column in the datarow. But I get an error "Can't bind to property or column Name on datasource."
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>>In the Watch window I can see the column and it has data in it, so it seems like I should be able to do this. But I haven't found any examples or references in Help or searching this site.