>>>I am posting this because I am trying to help a client programmer but I am not at home where I can look at any of my code. He had problems with the DataSets when running against the two different stored procedures. When debugging he found one to be read-only. I assume that was a property of the either the dataset or the table within. Yes the framework is MM but I don't think (will check when home) there is anything in the framework that sets that and possibly it is detected because the stored procedures are different. I will look at it directly myself when I get home and see exactly what is going on. I had hoped there was a simple answer on how to force a dataset to be read-write.
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>>There is nothing inherent in a DataSet (nor a Typed DataSet) that would make any part of it read-only. Also the DataSet itself knows nothing about where it gets its data from ... so which Stored Procedure is filling it shouldn't matter either. Now, I know absolutely nothing about MM, so there could be something in there that's causing problems.
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>>I guess we'll have to wait until you get home to find out more info (specifically, exactly *what* is read-only).
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>>~~Bonnie
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>Hi Bonnie,
>I am home but will be out teaching today and tomorrow so no real time. I do see some of what he sent me. Here was his specific comment.
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>"What causes the incoming data from that DataAdapter to configure the rows in the DataTable as ReadOnly or NOT ReadOnly? In the attached screenshot, at line 600 the nano-second that the DataAdapter fills the DataSet, the Rows of the DataTable of that DataSet switch from ReadOnly = F to ReadOnly=T when one stored procedure is called but stays ReadOnly=F when another stored procedure is called. "
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Hi all,
I'm the one causing this trouble. I mis-spoke in the paragraph above. It was not the ROWS of the DataTable that I was drilling down and checking the ReadOnly attribute of but rather the COLUMNS. Sorry about that.
As I stepped through the program I hovered over/drilled down to the following property: DataSet---Tables----non-public members----List----
[TableName]----Columns----non-public members----List---- [ColumName]----ReadOnly = (False/True depending on Stored Procedure used).


Thanks!

Don
(Using Ron's account --to muddy the waters even further)