Hi, am totally new to developing,i am having a go with vs2008...how can i search for a specific record in a database and reflect the returnd values on textboxes? Say i have customer table, with columns fname,lname,age. How can i query the data base to reflect into textbox1-fname,textbox2-lname afta entering 21 in a search textbox for the age? Using c#

You may want to start here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171884.aspx

Hope this helps.

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Thanks, this was just what i needed to get cracking... though am trying to delete from a datagrid view which is bound to a view from about two tables. you guessed it, my app keeps crashing because i am not able to delete from the view. how would i go about this? thanks again.