so i have a working ish program now, when i add the record it saves and returns the save message box as it should and is viewable in the database where it saves to, but it is not viewable in the text boxes when looking back at the form until i close program and re open it, then i can see the record stored in the database, it just wont update the form, but it should, here is the code whats going on here (probably easy fix just wont make sense in my head)
Private Sub btncommit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btncommit.Click
Dim cb As New OleDb.OleDbCommandBuilder(da)
Dim dsnewrow As DataRow
da.Fill(ds, "Appointment")
dsnewrow = ds.Tables("tblCustomers").NewRow()
dsnewrow.Item("CustomerID") = txtcustomerid.Text
dsNewRow.Item("GroupName") = txtgroupname.Text
dsNewRow.Item("Forename") = txtforename.Text
dsNewRow.Item("Surname") = txtsurname.Text
dsNewRow.Item("DateOfBirth") = txtdob.Text
dsNewRow.Item("Address") = txtaddress.Text
dsNewRow.Item("Town") = txttown.Text
dsNewRow.Item("County") = txtcounty.Text
dsNewRow.Item("Postcode") = txtpostcode.Text
dsNewRow.Item("Telephone") = txttelephone.Text
ds.Tables("tblCustomers").Rows.Add(dsNewRow)
da.Fill(ds, "tblCustomers")
da.Update(ds, "tblCustomers")
MsgBox("New Record added to the Database")
btncommit.Enabled = False
btnsavecustomer.Enabled = True
btneditcustomer.Enabled = True
btndeletecustomer.Enabled = True
' End If
End Sub