Cor,
I dont understand the character of your reaction.
In your sample you write out relations in code.
Your sample is absolutely not scalable for big joins.
Besides it does nothing about insert/update.
The idea of a joinview or updatable view is that
insert/update/get/fill are arranged for you from
a view on related tables.
In VS2005 the dataset copies the
relations for you, but you have to write the
insert and update statements yourself either
in stored procs or in code.
Thats why I want something like that.
Rick