Sid,

Not to get into a major .NET discussion here, but I gotta wonder how you're getting that data for a 1 million row DataSet? If it's coming in over the wire, I don't see how 2.0 makes any difference, since the bottleneck would certainly not be from ADO.NET, but simply the speed of retrieving all that data. (SQL Server or what?)

Just curious ...

~~Bonnie

>Regarding your problem with .Net: if it is ADO.Net then I think it's worth it to give VS2005 a shot. VS 2005 use ADO.Net 2.0 which is much much faster. With ADO.Net 1.1, creating a dataset with 1 million rows takes anywhere from 4 to 8 minutes. With ADO.Net 2.0, it takes well under a minute.