>In vfp, I can read an xml document into a cursor and display the grid in a form, with about three lines of code. How would you go about doing this in vb.net using winforms, webforms, or any other facet of dot net? Yeah, I know, I'm finally poking the bear.
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>Aren't there laws against that? ;)
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>Not sure how simple you need it, but let's try this one:
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>DataSet dsMyData = new DataSet();
>dsMyData.ReadXml(@"c:\myxmlfile.xml", XmlReadMode.InferSchema);
>myDataGrid.DataSource = dsMyData.Tables[0];
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>myDataGrid.DataBind();   //  you'll need this for webforms
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>Let me know if that helps, or if you need something a little more elaborate.

Well, it sorta did. I'm using vb.net so I had to change some of the syntax and add the imports system.xml and it almost worked. It did render a grid with one column. In vfp, it rendered three columns, but even then it glommed some of the stuff together. Is there a comparable entity in dot net for fcount() and if so, how would you deal with that in code?

Thanks again for the pointers.