Omigosh!!! Is my face red. I've just got to start paying more attention to the forum titles. Sorry about that everybody.

Alan

>Alan,
>
>There is no AFields()function or dropdownlist.rowsourcetype ... I suspect you're talking about VFP and this question is in the .NET forum.
>
>~~Bonnie
>
>>Add a property to your form - aFlds[1]
>>Set your combobox rowsourcetype to Array, and the rowsource to ThisForm.aFlds, ColumnCount = 1
>>In The form load,
>>
>>AFields(ThisForm.aFlds, "mytable")
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>
>>>I am trying to populate a a dropdown box with the field names of a Ds to enable a user to select query Fields.
>>>
>>>so i tried to use and arraylist something like this
>>>
>>>dim lafldnames As New ArrayList
>>> For intColumn = 0 To dsGrid.Tables(0).Columns.Count - 1
>>>
>>>lafldnames.Add(dsGrid.Tables(0).Columns(intColumn).ColumnName.ToString)
>>>
>>>next
>>>
>>> DropDownList1.DataSource = Me.lafldnames
>>> DropDownList1.DataBind()
>>>
>>>
>>>however I get an error
>>>
>>>DataBinder.Eval: 'System.String' does not contain a property with the name dsGrid.Tables(0).Columns(intColumn).ColumnName.ToString