No, I was not being sarcastic. You have had a lot more than a few great technical posts.

>I hope you are being sarcastic :-}
>I've a shrewd suspicion that it takes a lot more than making a few half-a****d sugsestions on one forum to become a MVP,
>Best,
>Viv
>
>>This is as good a place as any to compliment you (again) on the high quality of your .NET posts. You are not only knowledgeable but helpful. I hope you are not overlooked again when the next round of MVPs is announced.
>>
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>>>Does it work it you use a new instance of the strongly-typed dataset for the .ReadXml(tr) ?
>>>Of course if so you'd need to change the SmartDeSerialize method to accept an existing instance as a ref parameter (forget the equivalent in VB)
>>>Regards,
>>>Viv
>>>