Rex,
I haven't done anything with ASP.Net, so I won't be able to answer any specific questions, other than to point you in the right direction. If your dataset isn't too huge (and who's to say what huge is <g>), you can persist it with ViewState. Sorry to say, that's *all* I know about it ...
~~Bonnie
>All,
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>I am looking for a way to persist a dataset between postbacks without using session variables.
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>Is there a best practice for this?
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>TIA
>
>Rex