>>I get an Entity that has all the needed attributes to be known by the framwork and is able to be saved by the framework. So if I create an entity this way and then hydrate it by calling xml.Deserialize() do I still have the entity I started with?
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>Sounds like a great philosophical question ;-)
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>No, it constructs a new object.

Guess it won't work then. I tried to create the object by deserializing first and then find a way to make it framework aware, but couldn't find anything suitable. I may have to just build all the pieces manually so it can be saved. There is a ReadXmlToDataSet method, but not a ReadXmlToEntity.
Thanks Paul
Tim