Forms Databinding - DataSet not updating? - winforms

I have a Form (Compact Framework, actually) with a few fields, a date and a string, among other things. Both TextBox controls are bound to properties in a BindindSource.
The BindindSource has a DataSet as its DataSource property, and the DataMember is a table in a SQL CE database.
When I want to add a new row, I call bindingSource.AddNew(), then bindingSource.MoveLast(). The form shows the default values (as defined in the DataSet) and I can edit all the fields.
To save the form, I call bindingSource.EndEdit() and insert the values from the DataSet row into the database, using a TableAdapter method. The date makes it into the database, the string does not. Instead, the default value for the string is saved, not the value that I typed in the text box.
When I inspect the data in the DataSet table's row after calling EndEdit(), the date field is updated with the data from the form, the string is not.
Oddly enough, when I edit an existing row with the same form (without calling AddNew), the string field is updated and persisted just fine. So this only happens after calling AddNew() on the BindingSource. What am I missing? Where should I start looking?
The code is a bit too much to post here, unfortunately.

I found the issue - I had accidentially select the same column in the BindingSource for both the Tag and the Text property of the TextBox. I think what happened was that the Text was written back first, the Tag second, and because the Tag was not updated, it overwrote the modified value.

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Why my Database Table is not updated when I change Values in DataGridView?

I put a DataGridView named DataGridView2 on my form.
And I assigned dataSource property to a table in my DataSet, called "Account".
I set the default setting for dataGridView which allows user to modify it. And I put a Save button for user to save changed values from the grid to the database. However it doesn't work.
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What you actually need to do is to call Update on the same data adapter or table adapter that you originally called Fill on to retrieve the data in the first place. The Fill method executes the SelectCommand to retrieve data and the Update method executes the InsertCommand, UpdateCommand and DeleteCommand as needed to save changes back to the database.
That Update method will implicitly call AcceptChanges to indicate that the changes have been saved. It's rare that you should ever need to call AcceptChanges explicitly.

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Update 02:
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Update 03:
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