Kevin, this all stems from the NewRow() in a GetEmptyxxxxx Dataset.

So it all goes back to that. I'll be focusing on that later today and on Fri at the clients again.

__Stephen

>Stephen,
>
>>// Get a DataSet containing all Page
>>dsGetTrans = oTrans.GetEmptyTrans();
>>dsGetTrans.Tables["deptran"].Rows[0]["tr_applpg"]=MmTextBox2.Text ;
>
>Somehow your tr_applpg column has been set to read only...This doesn't seem like anything at the framework level. Is tr_applpg a calculated column or is it populated directly from a database field?
>
>Regards,