set up a global variable.... say
Public Asc as Integer = 1 
Public Desc as Integer = 0 -- when the grid is set to ascending order and
vice versa...

there are multiple ways to do this....

keep me posted if u still have issues

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-----Original Message-----
From: Abraham Luna [mailto:abe@a...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:37 PM
To: pro_VB_dotnet
Subject: [pro_vb_dotnet] datagrid sort


the user can click a datagrids column headers and sort ASC or DESC. so how
do i get a value indicating how a datagrid is sorted.

like:"Stock ASC"

or something i can work with?

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i'm using visual studio .net on windows 2000 pro


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