Ok, bear with me, this must be obvious to someone but I can not get it. I'm writing an application in Visual Basic 2005 Express, and in my project I have an Access database added (.mdb) and the dataset (.xsd). What I need to do is in some functions I'm writing, retrieve information from a Table in said database, and I'm sure there must be some easy built-in functions for doing this but I don't know them. For example for a constructor: Code: Public Sub New(ByVal intID As Integer) intClassVariable = some data from the table retrieved using the ID parameter The ID parameter being the ID on the Table of course. So how do I accomplish this? I noticed I can declare objects as DataSets...do I need to set a 'DataSet' object to refer to the .xsd part of my project? thanks in advance