>>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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>Dimitry
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>Can you show us the contents of a sample .xml file ?
>I create .xml files that are later used to create datasets, but I need more clues to be of any help here.
Thank you, Bill. I think the task that I am trying to learn to do should be independent of the XML structures. Basically if I learn to do it with a very simple XML I can apply the same approach to more complicated XML.
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