It was either: When I was 12 I wrote a program to password protect all of my 'computers' teacher's discs beacuse she wouldn't let me opt out of the class. I told her if she couldn't figure it out I should be allowed to opt out. I opted out. --or-- When I was 9 or 10 and my Dad gave me his 8086 to play with and all I could think to do with it was to write a program in BASIC that replicated the tune the horn on the 'General Lee' made from the 'Dukes of Hazard.'

"there is nothing in my first reply that is not personable." Yeah, "There is also this thing called Google that will find information for you." Real personable.

hook to the DataGridView's CellDoubleClick event if selecting by row do a foreach (DataGridViewRow row in this.dgStandings.SelectedRows) { goGetYourNewDataMethodWhichTakesAString(row.Cells[0].Value.ToString()); } where the cell index is the cell you want or for multiple cells foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in this.dgStandings.SelectedCells) { goGetYourNewDataMethodWhichTakesAStringcell.Value.ToString(); } or even more simply goGetYourNewDataMethodWhichTakesAString(this.dgStandings.SelectedCells[0].Value.ToString());