Question

I have the following piece of code:

if (SqlConnection.State == ConnectionState.Open)
{
    using (SqlDataAdapter RequestDataAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter("Select * From RequestTabel", SqlConnection))
    {

        DataSet RequestDataSet = new DataSet("Requests");
        RequestDataAdapter.FillSchema(RequestDataSet, SchemaType.Source, "RequestTabel");
        RequestDataAdapter.Fill(RequestDataSet, "RequestTabel");

        DataTable RequestDataTable;
        RequestDataTable = RequestDataSet.Tables["RequestTabel"];

        RequestDataSet.WriteXml(@"C:\temp\MyDataset.xml");
    }
}

This reads the content of a (database) table to a DataSet, when finished reading it will write to an XMl file.

My problem:

• Not all columns should end up in the XMl file, how can I exclude/include columns?

• The XML that WriteXml makes does not include a namespace, how can i add this?

Am i forced to open the XML file after the WriteXml to add the namespace?

• Is it possible to build up the xml using an xsd??

Edit: adjusted the path name 🙂

Answer 1

As for 1: change your SELECT to only select the columns you need, you can even rename the columns on the fly by using AS to define an alias.

As for 2: DataSet and DataTable both have a property called Namespace (for the DataTable property see here)which you could set.