Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney View Post
What is a TClientDataSet? That sounds like a class in Delphi. Was the app that wrote the file written in Delphi? Basically you need to know the format of the file so that you can open it and then read the data, either in text or binary format, and interpret the data.

Yes, that's correct, It's a Delphi structure for databases. I can read it as a text file but there's a lot of garbage and it's unformatted (but generally the data is legible). I have also use an aplication called CDS Explorer (by Dave Bhatia) to open and read the file.

VB.Net has a DataSet class and I was wondering if there was a method of reading the Delphi ClientDataSet (the .cds file) into a VB DataSet?