I can use the form designer to disable (any of the) BindingNavigator's items, (i.e. the MoveFirst, MovePrev, Delete, Add, etc. items). In the designer the items are greyed out and the properties say they are disabled. However, when the program runs they are all enabled. If I disable an item in code, in the Form Load event for instance, it properly becomed disabled...but only until I move to another record when it becomes enabled again. Almost as if the act of moving from one record to another makes all the items enabled irrespective of the design-time setting. This is the most simple form in an otherwise empty project and I built it by following the simple instructions in the help text, i.e. I create a data source and dropped it on the form. Please, how do I disable the add and delete items!

Hi Giles,
I was facing a similar problem but then I found a workaround-

first set
BindingNavigator.DeleteItem = null;
BindingNavigatorDeleteItem.Enabled = false;

this does it.

to enable
BindingNavigator.DeleteItem = BindingNavigatorDeleteItem;
BindingNavigatorDeleteItem.Enabled = true;

hope this helps.