Bonnie,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I do have connection strings hard-coded in my application, and yes, I did let Visual Studio create all this stuff for me including the TableAdapters but everything has worked fine so far except for this tedious waiting while Visual Studio does something with the Dataset in the new location.

I look forward to hearing more from you, but since the connection strings aren't causing me any problems, I don't see how putting them in a config file will speed things up.

Cheers,
David.
P.S. If you could also tell me how to quote your message (i.e. the one I'm replying to), I'd appreciate that too.