Thanks Jacci:

I was just trying to discover what the correct grammar was for referencing a value of a Typed Dataset field.

>Hi Bonnie,
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>>>>Some "best practices" have been slow in evolving in the .NET world it seems, or maybe just not readily available a year or two ago. A lot of people were just "winging it".<
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>You can say that again. That's what happened with the project I'm working on. I've been refactoring where I can.
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>This thread couldn't have happened at a better time for me. I had a question about coding:
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mySaveDS.StudentFormBenchmarks.Rows(intCount).Item("BIType")

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mySaveDS.StudentFormBenchmarks(intCount).BIType

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>We are using typed data sets and the original developers used and are still using the first method. Since I read an article about the 2nd method only about 3 weeks ago, I use the second. I'm going to have to use this thread to educate our team.
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>TIA,
>Jacci