Wilson,

Jayesh gave you code to determine the length of actual data ... I assume that is not what you want. The Columns collection has a MaxLength property ...

ds.MyTable.Columns[0].MaxLength

but it is not automatically set when you define DataSets, it's default is -1. You could set the MaxLength property for all columns manually yourself when you define your DataSet, but I also assume that that is not what you want. I don't know if there's an automated way of doing it ... sorry, I guess I'm no help. I think you might have to roll-your-own code to auto-generate this.

~~Bonnie


>Why do i have to use the Rows object instead of the Column Object, if i am talking about a specific Column.
>
>Which are the Rows of a table and wich are the columns, maybe i am confused.