Lets take a step backwards... how do you go about creating a dataadapter? Do you use the visual tools?

>Well, one of us must be missing something here ... I'm not sure what kind of column mapping needs to be done when Filling a DataSet. I'm not doing any column mapping and AFAIK none is necessary. Could you elaborate please?
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>>>Hmmm ... ok, that makes sense ... but lemme ask you ... what's the *point* of doing this? What's wrong with just using the DataAdapter.Fill() method?
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>>Because you have to go through the task of column mapping? Or, have you found an easy way to handle mapping?