How to get the dataset size (in bytes)?

[Guest]

In Data Adapter Preview window,
you can preview the size of the dataset.

But how to get this value progammtaically?

i tried to find proper property in dataset and data adapter but cannot find.
any idea?

Here is the screenshot:
http://www.ezballet.com/scrdump/datasetsize.gi

 

[Chris Taylor]

Hi,

The size returned in the preview matches the length of the string returned
by calling the DataSet.GetXml() method.

Hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Thanks so much! Chris

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

The size returned in the preview matches the length of the string returned
by calling the DataSet.GetXml() method.

That's quite scary, seeing as the XML could presumably include various
Unicode characters which aren't representable in any normal encoding as
a single byte...

 

[Guest]

Any other better method
I am going to use lenb or marshal.sizeof function to return the no. of bytes of the XM

Actually, I am doing some kind of performance tuning
I want to know the exact "size" of the data return from the server to the clien
That's why I ask this