Loading data into a datagridviewcomboboxcolumn - vb.net

I have a datagridviewcomboxcolumn to which I need to load data either from another form or by excel.
Before loading, I am validating the data to make sure it exists in the datagridviewcomboxcolumn list.
Whenever I try to load the data, it gives an exception error as value is not valid.
How can this be solved?
Or
is there a workaround to disable this error?

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I have a subform that changes where it gets its data from based on user input by using the Me.SubForm.SourceObject = Query.SomeQuery. It seems that by doing this, I am losing the ability to set the BeforeUpdate property.
The code I am using is as follows:
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THanks
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And you can have empty RecordSource in form and set it after you have created table.
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When adding a checkbox to a datagridview datatable I get dataerrors

I have a datagridview that I've added a checkbox column to. When I preview my data without the checkbox it works fine. when I run the program and try to load the datatable, I get a data error. I'm not sure what may be causing this. Where can I look to figure out what's causing this error?
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A data error occurred when displaying
a cell that was populated by a data
source. This value indicates that the
value from the data source cannot be
displayed by the cell, or a mapping
that translates the value from the
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