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    <p>I have a SQL Server database for which I have created a strongly-typed DataSet (using the DataSet Designer in Visual Studio 2008), so all the adapters and select commands and whatnot were created for me by the wizard. </p> <p>It's a small database with largely static data, so I would like to pull the contents of this DB in its entirety into my application at startup, and then grab individual pieces of data as needed using LINQ. Rather than hard-code each adapter Fill call, I would like to see if there is a way to automate this (possibly via Reflection). </p> <p>So, instead of:</p> <pre><code>Dim _ds As New dsTest dsTestTableAdapters.Table1TableAdapter.Fill(_ds.Table1) dsTestTableAdapters.Table2TableAdapter.Fill(_ds.Table2) &lt;etc etc etc&gt; </code></pre> <p>I would prefer to do something like:</p> <pre><code>Dim _ds As New dsTest For Each tableName As String In _ds.Tables Dim adapter as Object = &lt;routine to grab adapter associated with the table&gt; adapter.Fill(tableName) Next </code></pre> <p>Is that even <strong>remotely</strong> doable? I have done a fair amount of searching, and I wouldn't think this would be an uncommon request, but I must be either asking the wrong question, or I'm just weird to want to do this. </p> <p>I will admit that I usually prefer to use unbound controls and not go with strongly-typed datasets (I prefer to write SQL directly), but my company wants to go this route, so I'm researching it. I think the idea is that as tables are added, we can just refresh the DataSet using the Designer in Visual Studio and not have to make too many underlying DB code changes.</p> <p>Any help at all would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance!</p>
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    1. COInteresting.... Doing this has never even occurred to me. I'd bet it's doable but I've never gone this route. I just wanted to comment that this is an interesting way of looking at the issue. +1 to you for original thought! Although I don't really understand the advantage of pulling in all data up front instead of just getting it as needed. I take it this is an environment with only one user at a time so you don't have to worry about data concurrency?
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    2. COThere is a possibility that multiple users will be using this application simultaneously, but the data in question is read-only, so I do not believe concurrency is an issue (plus the data will be more or less static, so we don't even need to worry about dirty reads). As for original thinking, I'm very anti-hard-code about anything, and it galls me to have to type in something twice, when I think that some sort of automated solution would work better. Thanks for the +1! This is my first foray into a points-based forum, so I'm still very much a n00b. Glad you're going easy on me.
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