Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Kick Start

Using the DataSet Class

The dataset acts as a local repository for your data, and it'll be the target of our data operations when we retrieve data from a data provider in a few pages. As you know, you can use the Fill method of a data adapter to fill datasets with data, and if that dataset is bound to controls, those controls will display that new data automatically. You can find the significant public properties of DataSet objects in Table 10.16, their significant methods in Table 10.17, and their significant events in Table 10.18.

Table 10.16. Significant Public Properties of DataSet Objects

PROPERTY	PURPOSE
DataSetName	Returns or sets the dataset name.
HasErrors	Returns True if there are errors in any row in any table.
Relations	A collection of relation ...