Create empty datatable from SQL Server table?

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25 Apr 2006 10:54 PM

David Tilman

I'm using C# in Visual Studio 2003 and would like to create an empty
datatable in my dataset based on a SQL Server table. I basically want to use
the metadata of the SQL Server table without loading any data into my
datatable. What is the best approach to do this?

25 Apr 2006 11:09 PM

William (Bill) Vaughn

Check out "SchemaOnly"

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"David Tilman" <DavidTil***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm using C# in Visual Studio 2003 and would like to create an empty
> datatable in my dataset based on a SQL Server table. I basically want to
> use
> the metadata of the SQL Server table without loading any data into my
> datatable. What is the best approach to do this?