>>The GUID (workstationguid) is being generated by a web service and workstationguid is defined as a string.<

OK, Jon, but a GUID has a certain format. In the error message that you showed, workstationguid is definitely not in a GUID format, so I'm guessing that your column's datatype is expecting GUID data and your Webservice is not returning it in the correct format.

~~Bonnie



>Bonnie
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>The GUID (workstationguid) is being generated by a web service and workstationguid is defined as a string.
>
>Jon
>
>>Jon,
>>
>>Ok, you said that the workstationguid is correct, and yet the error message is showing some kind of a date, not a GUID. So, there's something wrong with your data somewhere ... have you tried tracing it?
>>
>>~~Bonnie
>>
>>
>>>Working with the compact framework and writing XML file with the following code I get an error of:
>>>
>>>"An unhandled exception of type 'SystemsArgumentException' occurred in System.Data.dll
>>>
>>>Additional information: Cannot set column 'workstationguid' to '5/27/2003 05:58:33 PM70754
>>>
>>>
>>>The workstationguid value is correct.
>>>
>>>Code producing problem is the second line
>>>
>>>ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["workstationguid"] = workstationguid;
>>>ds.WriteXml(TAConfigPath + "TAConfig.XML");
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Any insight to what I'm missing?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Jon