Cetin,

If you have the Access Jet ODBC driver installed, you can open the text file as a table through ODBC.

>>Hi all,
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>>When I wanted to get data from a sdf textfile into a dataset, I first created a table in foxpro and appended the data from this textfile into the foxpro table and convert this table into xml. Afterwards it's easy to convert xml to a dataset table.
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>>I was wondering of course if there is a better alternative.
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>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Zakaria al Azhar
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>Zakaria,
>You could directly read and parse the text file. For a sample check "ADO.Net and You" on MSDN.
>Cetin