Hi Cor,

Thnaks very much for your help! I tried out what tuou suggested and I'm
beginning to slowly feel my way around the .NET ADO database connectivity
stuff. I also found this tutorial -

http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=633

It seems pretty helpful but some of the code gives errors under MS Visual
.NET 2003 and I had to make a few changes. This tutorial describes how to
connect to a database via a Windows Forms application and update and create
records in the table. However, it gives some errors under .NET 2003. For
example, this line -

this.dbaContacts.Fill(dsMain);

...had to be changed to this line before it worked....

this->mySQLAdapter->Fill(myDataSet);

This will populate all my textfields on my form with the data from the table
in my database. However, these lines give errors -

BindingContext[dsMain, "Contacts"].EndCurrentEdit();
this.dbaContacts.Update(dsMain.Contacts);

These lines are supposed to update the current record being edited. Of
course I can change the last line to -

this->mySQLAdapter->Update(myDataSet->Records);

but I'm not sure how to change the first line??? Any views?

Many Thanks!

David