I'll check that out Bill. In most of my web apps I have replaced the nulls with empty strings. Your way sounds like a better practice.

Thanks,

Chris


>Hi Chris,
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>I have not done this task in winforms so I don't know the issues that would exist. However, in an ASP.NET grid, I have used the grid ItemDataBound event to test on NULL and replace with appropriate text ( E.g. "", "NA", etc. ). I should think the same methodology could be used in a winform as one method to resolve this. However, since I have not done this yet in winforms, I don't know what the details would be. Perhaps someone who has performed this task will jump in with them ...
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>Bill
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>>Anyone know how to suppress the (null) from appearing in a winform grid?
>>I used DataGridTextBoxColumn.format but it seems that null values never get passed in.
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>>Thanks,