Can I populate a dataset from an array?

[andrew allan]

I have written an application which calculates several
parameters and passes these to a object array, and now I
want to display these graphically.

I plan on using the graphic capabilities of Crystal
Reports, and so have to get my object array to populate
into a dataset which will serve as a source for CR. I
have managed to store the object array to disk in XML
format which I thought may be a good first step but
setting the dataset.datasource property to the XML file
doesn't seem to help.

Is it possible to bind the dataset to an array, or can I
provide looping code to populate te dataset field by
field.

All the documentation I have managed to find on the
datset assumes that data is populated from a data adapter
after querying a database, is there any place where I can
find instructions on filling datasets from other sources.

 

[Val Mazur]

Hi Andrew,

You could load XML into Dataset and it should be pretty simple. Check next
KB with an example

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309702&Product=adonet

You cannot bind an array to dataset, but you could load array into one
DataRow, when you create it