The TableAdapter is new to 2.0 and I've never used it ... and I probably never will either, since we use Stored Procs for all our database access and almost always have at least a few DataTables (more often, a lot more than a few) in each DataSet.
~~Bonnie
>That's exactly what I was looking for... thanks Bonnie. I knew there had to be a way to load the datatable within the dataset, instead of just loading the datatable itself.
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>I think I had heard before about always returning XML, but last week I read a article that said if you know you are always going to be consuming the web service from an ASP.NET application, then it is OK to return a dataset. I think I'll take Kevin's and your advice or that article's.
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>Thanks for the help!