>>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.
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>>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.
Thank you and John for your help.
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