Lee,

It's easier for me to respond to a specific question, rather than to just wax eloquent about broad topics. <g> So, with that in mind, I'll give you a few links that I had bookmarked and then if you still have questions, at least they'll be more specific and maybe easier to answer! <g> I haven't read these articles in awhile, but I assume that since I bookmarked them, they probably have some decent info in them.

http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4825.asp?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbcondatanavigationinwindowsforms.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet02252003.asp

Anyway, that's probably enough to get you started.

Have fun!

~~Bonnie

>You are right, more questions. But I'm afraid they've reach a broad area. Kind of like a stream that suddenly opens into a vast ocean. :)
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>I've heard talk of BindingContexts and DataBindings in discussions in the newsgroups (I search them ALOT), and on every .NET forum I've been on. I know enough about ADO.NET to be able to run SQL commands against a database (be it Jet, VFP, or SQL) using connections, commands, dataadapters and datasets to get the data, and do simple binding to a datagrid to display/edit the data. That's about the extent of my experience with ADO.NET. I really need to dedicate some serious time to studying ADO.NET in more depth. If you care to take the time to explain BindingContexts, go for it. I'll read anything you have to say about it like a kid in a candy shop. ;)
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>If you can, point me to some good ADO.NET primers, articles, etc. that would have good explanations about all the different ways/methods to do data binding (both for getting data into controls, and for getting data from the controls into a datasource). So many of the ones I've run across just explain about connectionstrings, connections, dataadapters, datasets, and how to use the .DataSource property. No real good explaination of databinding beyond that.
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>Thanks for all the info you've given me, and for any further info/pointers/leads you give me. :)
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>Lee Perkins