Russ,

>I have been searching unsuccessfully. Is there any methods in MM or .NET framework that can output a dataset to a text file? I noticed the dataset has the .writetoxml method, however, i need to get it a CSV text file,

There's nothing built into MM .NET or ADO.NET that does this, but here's a link that shows you how:

http://www.dotnetspider.com/technology/kbpages/963.aspx

Regards,