No, it's all done in code. Something like this (this is in C#, sorry about that <g>):

MyDataSet ds = new MyDataSet();

// -- Already have a connection object, oConnection
SqlCommand sc = new SqlCommand("csp_GetMyData", this.oConnection);
sc.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(sc);

int iRows = da.Fill(ds)

That's it ... pretty straight-forward.

~~Bonnie


>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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>>~~Bonnie
>>
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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?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Because you have to go through the task of column mapping? Or, have you found an easy way to handle mapping?