@Rapture - you hit the nail on the head... it did sound condescending a bit, and the exclamation marks didn't help.

@4advanced - your explanation did help clarify why what I did worked, so thank you for that. Sorry for getting upset, but it did feel like I was being talked down to. No hard feelings?

Hehehe..... absolutely no hard feelings :=)
I am glad you figured out the databinding issue.

Binding can be done on tons of different ways, even runtime. You have to find the way which you are comfortable with.
My advice is, create a testproject and play with the datagridview, dataset, datatables, sorting of data etc. That will clarify the most. Try to build something like the management studio for sql-express.
Connect to a table, read the datacolumns into a gridview and so on...It's really not thát hard.... :=)

Regards,
Richard
The Netherlands

Thanks! I'm about to send another post - so watch out! lol Need to view the entire content of the field Description without the user having to manually stretch the field title by dragging the right side. It's coming in a new post right now....