Thanx. I made the connection and I can now browse all of NorthWind tables and views directly from within vs.net. I downloaded MSDE as per the install instructions of vs.net 2003. How do I get the scripts that generate the NorthWind database. The NorthWind database did not install along with MSDE.

Neil

>Neil,
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>I'm pretty sure it will work without the custom data access class...but it IS a good exercise anyway!
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>You can go to the top of the Solution Explorer, right-click on Data Connections, and select Add Connection... from the shortcut menu.
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>Regards,