Question

I have a populated DataTable I’d like to serialize to a file for later use. I’ve been looking over the options involved with this and wondered if someone could point me in the right direction.

What I’ll be creating are two methods– one for writing the datatable to a file, and another for creating a new datatable using the file as input. Does it make sense to use the WriteXML() and Load() methods to do this, and if so, which flag(s) are ones to focus on? Thanks for the guidance.

I’m using .Net 2.0 if that helps.

Answer 1

I would go for the read/write xml methods. We use that pretty extensively. It’s quick, it’s easy, it’s built into the framework.