Linq sql data binding to winforms combobox

Answer 1

i don't know exactly in which post, but I remember that scottgui came up with solution to this problem in linq series...maybe to try to find it:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/09/07/linq-to-sql-part-9-using-a-custom-linq-expression-with-the-lt-asp-linqdatasource-gt-control.aspx

cheers

Answer 2

Ok...Issue was traced to funky winform behavior. Evidently, there is no guarantee that the OnLoad for a user control will not be called more than once. As a consequence, the two tables involved, (see diagram above), were being loaded from different DataContexts. Splat!!