>>>That used to be one of the claimed downsides of a Remote View- change the table and you may have to change the RV. And the RV cannot be altered on the fly to suit different needs.<
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>Ah, but the difference is that if you forget to add the columns to your DataSet, stuff will still work. The column will be automatically added to the DataSet when you .Fill() it, it just won't be "typed", but you can still access it.

I do regard that as a minor technical difference. In general you would specify the columns explicitly.

Walter,