>>>Hi,
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>>>What is the fastest (or an efficient) method to find out if a dataset (not strongly typed) has a column; by name. For example; I have a dataset MyDataSet (created by loading an XML file) and I want to find out if the dataset has column MyColumn.
>>>
>>>TIA
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>>I think that you might want to look at the datatable, rather than the dataset.
>>The datatable has a columns collection that contains the names of the columns in the table.
>>You can search the collection or loop through it looking for the column you have in mind.
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>MyDataSet.MyDataTable.Columns("my column") != null
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>But hopefully, they're not typed data sets... LOL
Your solution is elegant.
Please don't start him again, John!