Hi, I've created a dataset and then I write the dataset to a database by taking the XML string of the dataset and storing that as one column in the database (because the dataset is variable).
In other words, I call GetXml on the dataset, and store this string. Now I want to go the other way... I want to take the string and convert it back to a dataset but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this. What I'm doing is loading it into an XML document like follows: string XMLData = myDataView[0].Row["XMLData"].ToString(); XmlDataDocument myXMLData = new XmlDataDocument(); myXMLData.LoadXml(XMLData); Then I iterate through the data document and rebuild the dataset. It seems to me that if it was so simple to call GetXml on a dataset, there should be some simple way of getting the Xml back into a dataset. Maybe I'm missing something. FYI... the ultimate goal is to display it in a datagrid so I would be happy to skip the dataset altogether. Thank you, Karen You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
