Going back a few years ago, I had designed/developed an Enterprise Management Reporting system for a global company that required MSMQ driven server-side automation of Office. Microsoft introduced a very powerful tool with the DataSet (even if it isn't sold the way I'm going to sell it to you).
My skepticism waned away very quickly when I started to delve under the covers of the DataSet. I also remember being skeptical when Microsoft introduced yet another library to manipulate data. I remember the DAO (Data Access Objects) days and the ADO Recordset days.
A DataSet (or XML document), in conjunction with an agnostic XML schema (not a DataSet XML schema) can be used to shape/reshape XML data.(Note: I use these functions in my data-driven unit tests.) A DataSet can be used to write to Excel and read from Excel using an OleDbConnection, very easily.Two important (and very helpful) aspects of the DataSet are uncovered here: This article explores the power of the DataSet in a way that you might not be familiar with. Download alternate parser (requires SAXON B for.
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