Which version of the provider are you using? I reported a long time ago that 
it was throwing a null reference exception instead of reporting the non 
existant column in an exception and I thought it was fixed.

""marzena"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Hi Carlos,
>
> I've found a bug in the way how exeptions are handled in method
> FbDataAdapter.Update(DataRow[], DataTableMapping). There is try - catch
> block and within it are updated parameter values etc. In the "catch" part
> potential exception is caught but there is no "throw" clause and the 
> program
> continues even after exception was fired.
>
> It looks like an intention to do it this way (i.e. the exception is not
> thrown immediately but it is thrown later at the end of method) but it
> causes IMHO very unpleasant behaviour.
>
> You can simulate it with any project where is FbDataAdapter used and its
> UpdateCommand is assigned and has at least one input parameter:
> 1) Change the 'SourceColumn' property to any non-sense value like e.g.
> "MY_NON_EXISTING_COLUMN".
> 2) compile project, run it, update data in corresponding dataset in order 
> to
> launch FbDataAdapter.Update method.
> 3) FbDataAdapter.Update method will fail on calling
>
> this.UpdateParameterValues(command, statementType, row, tableMapping);
>
> It is the first command in the try-catch block I have mentioned before. It
> throws an ArgumentNullException with message "'dataType' argument cannot 
> be
> null. Parameter name: dataType" (may be that you do not get the "dataType"
> word, it is not relevant).
>
> 4) The exception is caught and it is stored in the variable called
> updateException for later use
> 5) The program now continues and it fails again on the next step when
> evaluating the condition
>
> if (updatingArgs.Status == UpdateStatus.Continue)
>
> It is because updatingArgs is null - it was not initialized due to 
> previous
> exception.
>
> 6) The unpleasant result is that new non-sense exception
> NullReferenceException is thrown that has nothing to do with the real
> problem. I (as the user of the provider) have to search and trace into the
> provider code to find out what is the problem, because there is no chance 
> to
> understand what happened.
>
>
> The conclusion:
> 1) Could you please correct the exception handling in this method in order
> to obtain always the correct exception with correct message?
> 2) And next - when I found the "correct" message "dataType' argument 
> cannot
> be null. Parameter name: dataType" I was bit confused because in my 
> program
> is no such parameter! IMHO there must be another bug when generating this
> exception message.
>
> Regards Marek
>
>
>
>
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