My apologies, my memories of the arguments are poor. This was back in the day when I was using Borland Builder. I seem to recall that many of the people on their news groups thought that the use of databound was evil. I even worked for a man who used Delphi who refused to allow his staff to use databound controls. I have always used them, because IMO, it is part of the point of using a RAD tool - and I am using them heavily now. But I was curious what the industry's view is.