I don't think you can change the type once the column has been defined.

What are you using to create your dataset? If you are using a SQL Select, you can cast the value to string directly in the SQL select so that column in the dataset is created as a string column instead of a decimal one.



>I have a DataSet that contains a column with a System.Decimal field type.
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>Is there a way to convert this column to a string type so the field can store strings?
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>Thanks,
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>Jerry