Hey, Bonnie, you like datasets ...
Playing with a "wide and shallow" concept for child data.
In my proof-of-concept app I want to stored a dataset ( untyped - schema created in prop sheet - bound to datagridviews on form ) to a strongly typed property of my business object which will then be stored as part of the record in a SQL 2008 table.
Should I use varchar(max) or varbinary(max) to store this object ? Do I want to write it out as xml or just bitstream it out as a byte() array?
In this first iteration I am looking for the simplest, cleanest way to get the dataset into the prop and back out again. I almost had it working, I thought, using these functions to serialize and deserialize to xml varchar(max) but for some reason the last row of the grid doesn't properly write changes in the xml. Quirky. Perhaps it is something else I"m doing wrong on that one so if you say this looks good to you I may bang on it some more
http://codebetter.com/blogs/jay.kimble/archive/2004/03/30/10383.aspxAnyway, suggestions - and especially code (vb or c#) very welcome.
Dataset to SQL column via strongly typed prop
TIA
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