Right Keith,
However AFAIK it's limited to certain types like comma delimited. Does it work with SDF too?
Cetin

>Cetin,
>
>If you have the Access Jet ODBC driver installed, you can open the text file as a table through ODBC.
>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>I was wondering of course if there is a better alternative.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>Zakaria al Azhar
>>
>>Zakaria,
>>You could directly read and parse the text file. For a sample check "ADO.Net and You" on MSDN.
>>Cetin