Hi Kevin,

>When I try to create a connection to SQL in VS through the Server Explorer, I get
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>"Unable to add data connection. The DataConnectionDialog could not be initialized."
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>Can you provide an example of creating a Typed Dataset manually?
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>Thanks
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Right click on the project and click on add, New Item. Then choose the DataSet from the templates. After you create the dataset this way, you can right click on the visual represntation in the designer and pick Add Column. Name the new column to match your data field and set the type in the properties sheet. I do them all this way and you would want to know how to get around in this so you can make the needed changes as they occur in your dataset.

Tim

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>>>Excellent. Thanks! You too Bonnie!
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>>No problem Kevin ... hope you're having fun! =0)
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>>Tim, thanks for your help.
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>>~~Bonnie