>>After posting with Cathi on the finer points of actually binding the dg I created a template column. Beauty, except I cant get to the properties of the control... I can get the ID I assigned to it but not the text. :(
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>>e.Item.Cells(3).Controls(1).id = "txtQty"

>>I have no idea why the object is not exposed/obvious to me.
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>>Lost,
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>Are you doing late or early binding? In the code behind or in the aspx?

I am setting the template col up using the property builder. However the rest of the cols are bound at runtime in the code behind as follows:

'VB Code behind

Dim DS As DataSet
Dim MyConnection As New SqlConnection
Dim MyCommand As SqlDataAdapter
Private SqlCn As New SqlConnection(GetDBConnectionString)
MyCommand = New SqlDataAdapter(strSQL, SqlCn)
DS = New DataSet("MyProductDS")
MyCommand.Fill(DS, "Product")
grdProducts.DataSource = DS.Tables("Product").DefaultView
Me.DataBind()
MyConnection.Close()

HTML grid tag (if it matters ... )

<asp:DataGrid id="grdProducts" runat="server" BackColor="#DEBA84" BorderStyle="None" AllowSorting="True"
	AllowPaging="True" HorizontalAlign="Justify" CellSpacing="1" CellPadding="1" BorderWidth="1px"
	BorderColor="#DEBA84">
	<EditItemStyle Wrap="False"></EditItemStyle>
	<Columns>
		<mbrsc:RowSelectorColumn Visible="False" AllowSelectAll="True"></mbrsc:RowSelectorColumn>
		<asp:EditCommandColumn ButtonType="PushButton" UpdateText="Update" CancelText="Cancel" EditText="Add">
		</asp:EditCommandColumn>
		<asp:ButtonColumn Text="Remove" ButtonType="PushButton" CommandName="Delete"></asp:ButtonColumn>
		<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Qty">
			<ItemTemplate>
				<asp:TextBox id="txtQty" runat="server" Width="22px">1</asp:TextBox>
			</ItemTemplate>
		</asp:TemplateColumn>
	</Columns>
	<PagerStyle VerticalAlign="Middle" HorizontalAlign="Center" ForeColor="#8C4510" Position="TopAndBottom"
		Wrap="False" Mode="NumericPages"></PagerStyle>
</asp:DataGrid></TD>

My humble thanks in advance,