>As of now the only way i see to fix this is change the individual columns in the dataset.

Well, you can do that programmatically you know. As I mentioned in my first post, have a method in your DataSet that handles this (it checks if a column is a DateTime and does the appropriate conversions).

>That would be fine if it were only that easy. However it is not so easy to set some application wide property on the webservice or the data set in order to reverse this.

You may have missed this KB article in your Googling. It might help also:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842545

~~Bonnie




>That would be fine if it were only that easy. However it is not so easy to set some application wide property on the webservice or the data set in order to reverse this. That is what is so annoying about microsoft. One would think you would err on the side of NOT Changing data.
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>As of now the only way i see to fix this is change the individual columns in the dataset. That is absolutly ridiculous.
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>Gary