>>>I am passing a dataset as XML to a web service, which then passes it to a data class where it will be 'onverted'
>>>back into a data set.
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>>>1) How to I get the XML back into a data set?
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>>>2) How do I update the DB from the dataset?
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>>1) Look at the DataSet.ReadXML method.
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>Actualy I found that, but it throws an exception "Illegal characters in path" error.
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>[UPDATE] Looks like ReadXml is for reading from a file. I'm passing an XML string to
>this method and want to put it back into a dataset.
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>See this http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/CSharp/0540__XML/LoadXMLtoDataSet.htm

There are several overloads. Maybe the one reading in a stream is what you are looking for?

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>>2) I usually loop through the rows in the DataSet and save them one-by-one using normal ADO.NET methods. I know there are other fancier ways to do it with DataSets, but I am mostly a business objects guy so I don't know those offhand.
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>Ok
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>>3) You almost had me look up "onverted" in a dictionary before I realized the typo...
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>Doesn't everyone 'onvert' their data?