I populate a datagrid in a windows form with the following code: OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from " + this.tableSelected, this.myConn); DataSet ds = new DataSet(); da.Fill(ds, this.tableSelected); this.dataGrid.DataSource = ds.DefaultViewManager; when the database is loaded, a listbox displays all of the tables. when a table is clicked, the tableSelected variable is populated and this code is called to populate the datagrid with data from this particular table. anyway, the issue i have is that when a table is selected, the data is not shown initially. all that is shown is a grey box with 2 rows and 1 column, the bottom box has an arrow and a plus sign enclosed ina box. clicking this plus sign then displays the table name into a white box to its right. i must then click this table name to show the data inside the dataset within the datagrid. how can i get this data to display without having to click the table name since it already knows the name of the table when the code gets here? thanks