>I have fox tables that have ID columns of type double that I converted to C(36) and repopulated with a guid value and cascaded those values down to child tables. I do a query via OleDbAdapter to load said tables into memory in my C# app.
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>I created a copy of said table in Sql Server and the ID column is of type uniquidentifer. When I try and move the table to the server from the dataset via a Bulk Copy - WriteToServer() call I get an error "The given value from the data source cannot be converted to type uniqueidentifier of the specified column".
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>So I went back and made my fox columns type varbinary and casted the guid values to a type Q. Repeated the same process and got same error.
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>What do I need to do to get the data type conversion to work? Fox has no problem with the guid and I can see them in the column with the dataset XML visualizer.
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>Thanks all,
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>MW

I had the same problem and ended using temporary linked server. IMHO it's a bug in .Net. It tries to use there System.Convert.ChangeType to make the conversion and fails naturally. What were they thinking when they created that class.
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