>>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.
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>But that's 4 lines!!!! In VFP you could do it in 3. .NET sucks!!!




LMAO. That's good....