Take your own advice. Develop and test on your local machine. When you get the project where you want it, push it to your server. Then re-test. This is the approach I use and I have never had any issues with it. Plus, accessing the files locally is faster than accessing them remotely. Hope that helps. Ryan Bost http://www.sugarcoding.com

Thanks for all the suggestions. It seams that when you load the combo box (atleast with a dataset) it fires off the selectedItem and selectedvalue events, and maybe other combo box events. The selectedIndex stayed at 0 all the time so the if(combobox.selectedindex > 0) did work, but sense I was using index 0 for "All" to not filter that category it wasn't going to work for me. So after many cans of A&W Root Beer, I moved the lines that sets the events for both combo boxs under the last item in the form load event which was the loading of the datagrid. It seams to be working perfectly. Thanks again for all the suggestions, JefferyS :-D

I almost always use a dataset for the for the combo box. I would imagine that most others here would agree that there is nothing wrong with using datasets for combo boxes. Jefferys wrote: From reading about datasets and dataadapter it looks to me that using this method keeps the link to the database open. Is that true? If you are using the Fill method of a dataAdapter to fill your dataset, then you are usually in a disconnected state. The Adapter connects to the database for the query, and then disconnects when it is finished. If you are using a dbConnection object, and opening/closing the connection yourself, then it's possible that you might be leaving the connection open. Either way, it is safer to let the dataAdapter do the work for you.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I figured out what was wrong and it wasn't the code. You can't set the sorted property on the combobox to true when using a dataset. I don't know why it didn't give me an exception error. I hope my folly helps someone not spend hours and hours trying to figure out why it was not working. Thanks again for all the help. Thanks, JefferyS :-D

I tried with my VS .NET 2003... it gave me this first Visual Studio .NET 2003 setup encountered errors while attempting to download required files. Check your Web browser configuration settings and your connection hardware, and then try again. And then when I tried with 'RETRY' it showed me that there are no updates with a link to windowsupdate site! I was born intelligent Education ruined me!.