>It may not be the first step… but it's progressing.I've just purchased a book for $40 entitled: Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 – Step By StepBuilding Database Applications in .NET 2.0 I was attempting to teach myself via the examples and forums on the web. Unfortunately I was mixing the 3 different ways of doing things and twisting myself up in my own inferences about what was needed as a basic groundwork. I was setting it up programatically then dragging and dropping, and apparently the drag and drop adds extra bits (table adapters) that interfere with the programatic way I was attempting…