ok, I'll start from the beginning. I am trying to add access within Visual Basic. I followed the instructions that was given in my book. I also looked over the site that you suggested, it basically told me almost the exact same steps. The only difference was that it said to be in Visual c#. My book, which I have to go by, says to be in visual basic. Thank you, ibok23

yes, i coded it so it would allow the database. I will approach asp.net now. Thanks, Thank you, ibok23

You need to create the GridColumnStyle first, then added it to the GridColumStylesCollection. Just indexing a GridColumnStyleCollection, like your doing, will not create a new column. Dim newGridColumnStyle As New GridColumnStyle newGridColumnStyle.HeaderText = "Employee ID" newGridColumnStyle.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center dgPayrollInfo.GridColumnStyles.Add( newGridColumStyle ) . . . RageInTheMachine9532

You use the Enabled property of the TextBox control. When to enable it and disable it depends on your design. If I remember right, you were using menus to do Add, Delete, ... If the Click handler of the Add MenuItem, you would use something like this: Private Sub mnuAdd\_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles mnuAdd.Click **txtPartNumberTextBox.Enabled = True** ... the rest of your code to enable controls and buttons goes here ... End Sub The user would have to click some button you have on your form to tell your app that all the data is entered and to process it to add it to a database. This button has a Click handler. This is where you would disable the textboxes and buttons you need to: Private Sub btnAddData\_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnAddData.Click **txtPartNumberTextBox.Enabled = False** ... the rest of your code to disable controls and buttons goes here ... ... also the code to process the data to add goes here... End Sub RageInTheMachine9532

You're asking me? You have the book! 8) What's this program supposed to do? A text editor like notepad? And what's with the BindingContext? DataBindings sound like they are a few levels above you right now... What book is this? As for what cblnNotEditing is, I couldn't tell you. Just the name of the variable/class/object/whatever isn't enough to tell you what's going on. RageInTheMachine9532

Could somebody tell me what I am doing wrong? This is what I have... Dim partInformation As Binding partInformation = New Binding ("Text", dsParts, "tblParts.fldpartNumber") txtpartNumber.dataBinding.add(partInformation) partInformation = New Binding ("Text", dsParts, "tblParts.flddescription") txtDescription.dataBinding.add(partInformation) partInformation = new binding ("Text", tblParts.fldquanityOnHand") txtquanityOnHand.dataBinding.add(partInformation) partInformation = new Binding ("Text", tblParts.fldcost") txtcost.dataBinding.add(partInformation) partInformation = new binding ("Text", tblParts.fldsalesPrice") txtsalesPrice.dataBinding.add(partInformation) I am getting an error on all of the partInformation except for the dim. It says declaration expected. I am also getting an error on all the txt before the dataBinding saying declaration expected. :( Thank you, ibok23

I simulated what you said you did and I get an error for partRecords that says "Declaration expected" on the mouse over tip for partRecords, which has the curvy blue line under it. Is that what you got? If so you need to put that code in a sub. It would most likely go in the form loading sub. To create this sub you can double click the form while in [Design] view. If I'm underestimating your intellegence I don't mean to. I just don't know how much VB you know.

don't worry you were. Thanks. Tammy:-D Thank you, ibok23

Cool, that did work. Thanks again. I maybe calling again on my next project. :-O Thank you, ibok23

Anonymous wrote: I want them to be able when they push the clear button to default back to the current date. Easy enough ... just set the Value property of the DateTimePicker control to the current Date using Now(). Put this code in the handler for the Clear button click: dtpArrival.Value = Now() dtpCheckout.Value = Now() RageInTheMachine9532

ibok23 wrote: dim rollawaybed as double = 5 rollawaybedcharge.text = (rollawaybed * numberofdays.text) Well, you're trying to multiply a Double (number) by a String (.Text). You can't do that. But what you can do is convert the String TO a number first: Dim rollawaybed As Double = 5 Dim newcharge As Double = rollawaybed * Val(numberofdays.Text) rollawaybedcharge.Text = Format(newcharge, "C") Val will convert a string of numbers, like 5 or 5000 (NO PUNCTUATION!), into a actual value that can be used in calculations. RageInTheMachine9532