I have VB 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit by Andrew Parsons ISBN 0-7645-9573-3. In chapter 7 on page 126 there is a try it out and it shows to drag and drop a table from a datasource onto a listbox and when you run the program it is supposed to show the first column that is not an autonumber. The listbox properties changed to reflect the drag/drop operation. The Value Member property changes to ID and the Display Member property changes to NameFirst. I run the program and it runs without error, however it does NOT show the information. If I look at the database in the database explorer the data is shown. The errata for the book references a connection string issue but is not clear on how to fix it. I think it has to do with the database being created in a different project and then being added to the current project. This is a .mdf file, not a SQL connection.

Any help is appreciated.
-Rich

I have solved this myself. It was a simple matter of one line of code. When doing the drag/drop operation on a listbox that is directly on the main form (not a custom user control) a line of code gets added to the form load event to fill the table adapter from the dataset. When you drag/drop this to the user control it does not automatically add that line of code to the load event of the user control. When I manually added that line of code the program worked as expected.

I will submit this as errata.

-Rich