My co-worker participated in Kevin's class also. I still don't think you would want to create a million row dataset. It's much faster, but can still be timed in minutes.

>Sid,
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>I've heard good stuff about ADO.NET 2.0, but I've been a bad developer and not had a chance to evaluate it for myself (too busy, busy, busy). But still, I sure don't want to even *think* about creating a 1 million row DataSet!! <g>
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>~~Bonnie
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>>Bonnie,
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>>I'm very new to .Net. I took Kevin McNeishes class last week and he mentioned this to us. I clearly remember him giving this example, but--- if you ask me how technically MS is making it faster under the hood, you got me!!! I'm not at that level yet. ;-)
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>>May be one of the other .Net experts can comment on 'how' MS is making ADO.Net 2.0 faster.
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>>My main point to Jess was: with subsequent versions of VS, the data manipulation/visualization/retreival/binding will get better and better. Heck, in VS 2005, you can 'browse' a datatable in debugging mode by just clicking one icon next to the Watch window!!! I'm sure you know how difficult it is in VS2003.
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>>Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how much VS 2005 will solve Jess' problem of slow data binding/retrieval in VS 2003.
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>>--Sid