>Dim xmlData As String = "<XmlDS><table1><col1>Value1</col1></table1><table1><col1>Value2</col1></table1></XmlDS>" > >Dim xmlSR As System.IO.StringReader = New System.IO.StringReader(xmlData) > >myDS.ReadXml(xmlSR, XmlReadMode.IgnoreSchema)I was not aware there was an overload on that method.