Question

SO I am trying to get a simple dataset from the strInstallDataSet string into the dataset, using the code below, when I have the debugger connected I can see that strInstallDataSet has data, byteArray has data, but even after reading msDataset has nothing, length just sits at 0, I have tried setting the position before and after reading but it still just doesn’t pick up any data. Any ideas?

MemoryStream msDataset = new MemoryStream();

if (strInstallDataSet != null)
    {
        // Convert string to byte array.
        byte[] byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strInstallDataSet);
        msDataset.Read(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);

        // Put stream back into dataset object.
        dsInstallData.ReadXml(msDataset);

        msDataset.Close();
        msDataset.Dispose();
    }

Answer 1

You probably want to be doing the following:

using(StringReader reader = new StringReader(strInstallDataSet)) 
{
    dsInstallData.ReadXml(reader);
}