"Fred Morin" <fredmorin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O4IRbv9hEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>I have a windows forms which has 2 editor controls.. A text box and a Combo
>
> MyTextBox.Databindings.Add New Binding("value", "dsOrders",
> "Orders.ContactName")
>
> MyCombo.Databindings.Add New Binding("value", "dsOrders",
> "Orders.CompanyId")
>
> The Textbox is bound to the Contact Name and the Combo to a list of
> company. Whenever I choose a company, I get the contact's name default
> and I want to automatically update the content of the textbox. The user
> could change that contact name also manually.
>
> If I enter the text in the textbox, the current datarow is changed
> automatically,
>
> However, when I do that
>
> myTextBox.value = ContactName 'form example
>
> or
>
> mytextBox.Text = ContactName
>
>
> the datarow's ContactName is not modified, I have to use the following
> line to modify it...
>
> me.bindingcontext(dsOrders, "Orders").current.item("ContactName") =
> ContactName
>
> I assume this is not the best common practice and I would like to know
> what it is...

Miha Markic [MVP C#] wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> I would set the data to datasource directly.
> Get the CurrencyManager, it will give you the current DataRow...
>