I'm looking forward to hearing what people think as we get to a point where we can show some of it. Don't know yet when that will be though.

yag

>>Hi Yag,
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>> 1. We've made good strides with the scalability of ADO.NET datasets in VS2005. Not there yet, but you'll see the start of it (thousands of local rows will work fine now).
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>Can you tell us about how this technical enhancement wa achieved ?
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>> 2. Memory/disk spanning is one of the top things on my personal list for ADO.NET.
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>I really wonder how the VS team is going to do this. As datasets are objects and not just a flat fileformat just as VFP cursors are. In order to do this, you first have to map a dataset to a fileformat in order to flush it to disk. If this is done, it begs the question, why stop here ? If you've got a fileformat thought out, why not having a native fileformat for ADO.NET datasets ? IOWs building a complete database engine out of ADO.NET.
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>It certainly would be interesting to see how things progress.
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>Walter,