As I explained, you need to do the following to get information on the entire row (I thought you were just interested in the cell clicked on)

 get a handle on the row just clicked on...
Dim dr As Datarow = ds.Tables("{MyTable}").Rows(cell.RowNumber)

' populate text boxes...
textbox1.text = dr(0)
textbox2.text = dr(1)
textbox3.text = dr(2) ' and so ad nauseum...


In using this code, you get a handle on the row and you can then use this row to populate your text boxes.

im sorry for being a pest im new to vb.net, i wanted to retrieve the entire row selected, im so confused, wht code do i need to put into my click event handler

yes it worked!!!!!!!! thanks alot mate