I don't thnk this is possible. Let me tell you just a bit more about the design.
I have two tables: call them customers and orders. Customers is the parent, orders the child. When you click on the plus in the grid, you see all the orders for the customer. When you click on the customer in the grid, the panel shows the info from the customer and from the LATEST order. If the customer has five orders, you see the info from order number 5. If you edit the panel, you actually want to create a new order (order number 6) and/or update the customer info. I don't think you can do that by binding. Let's say though, that I had an easier applicatoin. Can I specifically bind a given control (e.g., a text box) to a specific field in the dataset? -Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Peter Stephens > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] updating dataset and dataform > > > Why don't you just bind the controls on the panel to the dataset? > You should > be able to use the same currency manager so that when the current > record is > changed in the grid, the panel's controls will automatically refresh. When > the user makes changes via the controls, the data will > automatically be sent > to the DataSet. Finally when you want to save the data to the > database, just > use a DataAdapter.Update(). The dataset maintains enough > information to know > what has changed and so will only send changed records to the database. > > From your descriptions, it seems that you are not binding any of your > controls to the dataset, but are instead manually moving data around your > user interface... Control binding does work and it provides a reasonable > amount of automation. > > -- > Peter > > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
