>>I am in the process of converting WinForms project into ASP.NET Web Forms. The code of WinForms project was created by off-shore developer who stopped communicating. So I have no help there. Good thing I have the WinForms project code but too bad I don’t understand a lot.
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>>So the first thing I am trying to understand is what VS/.NET tool he had used to create a DataSet that is used to be populated from XML file.
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>>Here is the segment of the code:
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>>//Instantiate dataset for data files list.
>> dstDataFiles = new DataFilesDataSet();
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>>I found in the WinForms solution the file DataFilesDataSet.Designer.cs where the class DataFilesDataSet is defined. The line of code that defines the class is:
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>>public partial class DataFilesDataSet : global::System.Data.DataSet {
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>>The top of the DataFilesDataset.Designer.cs says that
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>><auto-generated>
>>//     This code was generated by a tool.
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>>So I am trying to figure how do I create the DataFilesDataset.Designer.cs in my ASP.NET Web Forms project.
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>>TIA for any help.
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>As Gregory says - it's a DataSet. But it occurs to me that if the WinForms solution was structured with separate data and UI tiers you might be able to simply re-use the data layer 'as is' without re-writing ?

I don't think that the WinForms project was structured as separate data and UI tiers (although I don't know for sure). But I will look into the files of the project to see if it is so.
Thank you.