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Populating a DataSet

As you learned yesterday, a DataSet can be populated by a data adapter by calling the data adapter's Fill method. The Fill method invokes the command object referenced in the data adapter's SelectCommand property, and the data is subsequently loaded into the DataSet using the mapping found in the TableMappings property of the data adapter. This technique is far and away the one that you'll use most frequently to load data into a DataSet.

However, because the DataSet is a standalone object, it can also be programmatically loaded using its Tables collection. For example, the code in Listing 3.1 written in VB .NET creates a DataSet and populates it with two stores.

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