DataSet Question

Maybe one of you can help me..

How do I clone the structure of a table into a dataset without populating the dataset.. Basically I want to take a dataset and make it have all the fields of a specific table without having to Fill it.

Anybody?

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Originally posted by Hinder
Anybody?

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One way is to populate the dataset then use the method .WriteXMLSchema or something like this . It outputs an XML file that contains the structure only . You can use ReadXMLSchema to skin in the new dataset . Apparently you don't want to do this though ....:D

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Originally posted by Pirate
One way is to populate the dataset then use the method .WriteXMLSchema or something like this . It outputs an XML file that contains the structure only . You can use ReadXMLSchema to skin in the new dataset . Apparently you don't want to do this though ....:D

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Ah ok, so I only have to do this once then I can just load it from the schema right? Hmm so this only needs to be done everytime the original database table structure has been modified.. Ill try it, thanks Pirate..

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Originally posted by Hinder
Ah ok, so I only have to do this once then I can just load it from the schema right? Hmm so this only needs to be done everytime the original database table structure has been modified.. Ill try it, thanks Pirate..

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Yes . That's all theoritically speaking :)

Ok what am I missing here.. It doesn't error out but it's not adding the new data to the database..

Code:

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    Public Function SaveAccount(ByVal inAcct As IO_Client) As Boolean

        Dim oConn As New SqlConnection(oCS)
        Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM Accounts"
        Dim oAdapter As New SqlDataAdapter(strSQL, oConn)
        Dim ds As New DataSet

        Try
            'Import the table design
            ds.ReadXmlSchema(Application.StartupPath & "\schemas\accounts.xml")

            'Let's make a new row
            Dim dr As DataRow = ds.Tables("Accounts").NewRow

            'Add the values to the row
            dr("AcctName") = inAcct.Account.AcctName
            dr("AcctPass") = inAcct.Account.AcctPass
            dr("AcctMail") = inAcct.Account.AcctMail
            dr("AcctBanned") = CType(inAcct.Account.AcctBanned, Byte)
            dr("AcctCreated") = inAcct.Account.AcctCreated
            dr("AcctPurge") = inAcct.Account.AcctPurge
            dr("AcctLastIP") = inAcct.Account.AcctLastIP

            'Update the database
            oAdapter.Update(ds, "Accounts")


        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)
            Return False
        Finally
            'Close the connection
            oConn.Close()
        End Try

    End Function

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Don't I need to have some kind of command builder here to have this work?

Yes . It generates all the commands for updating , deleting, insert .