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Reusing the datatable instance created by default on bound controls

This is more of a general question and am posting this after searching through the IDE generated code and not being able to find what I need!

I have a form with bound controls (combo boxes mostly). When I added them, the IDE automatically created the table adapters (whose creation instances I can see in the designer code) and on the form load event added code of the kind I've posted here.

My question is, while I can find the table adapter instances, I cannot locate the instances of the datatable themselves - I would prefer to reuse what's already been created for submitting my updates rather than create a new one.

Any help pls?

Thanks,

this.tblGroupsTableAdapter.Fill(this.dsSaphireOra.tblGroups);

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Nasir Razzaq

You can see in the statement above that you have a Typed Dataset called dsSaphireOra and a Typed DataTable called tblGroups. Is that not what you are looking for?

http://thetonesofillusion.blogspot.com/2009/04/vb-net-typed-and-untyped-dataset.html

Ignis2

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Umm, no. I do have the typed datasets - I'm not sure where the instance of these is being created and just how the plain thing works is a bit confusing!
Because, if I want to use it, I usually do something like

tblGroups tbl = new dsSaphireOra.tblGroups();

And I cannot find the instance being created anywhere - does the IDE create a default instance on running which is what is accessible from the this pointer?

Nasir Razzaq

If the above line is automatically added to the code then it means that its an instance. I am not sure if default instance concept applies here.

Ignis2

ASKER

Just to make things a little clearer, these are created when i bind the controls to the datatables. I can see instances of the table adapters being created :

tblGroupsTableAdapter = new dsSaphireOra.tblGroupsTableAdapter()

but can't find any reference to the datatables themselves. Any idea why? Am just trying to understand how this works, so I have better control over my code!

Ignis2

ASKER

the lines of code I'm talking about are in the form.designer.cs - generated by the IDE!

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