Datasets - writing only changed records to xml file

[Paul]

Hello,

I have a dataset which i'm loading from an xml file (using ds.ReadXml() )
and I'm wondering how I can write back only the changed records to the xml
file instead of saving the whole file back to disk.

Thanks,
Paul

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Dim dtChanges As DataTable = ds.Tables(0).GetChanges()

Dim dsChanges As New DataSet

dsChanges.Tables.Add(dtChanges)

dsChanges.WriteXml("Changes.xml")



Ken

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Hello,

I have a dataset which i'm loading from an xml file (using ds.ReadXml() )
and I'm wondering how I can write back only the changed records to the xml
file instead of saving the whole file back to disk.

Thanks,
Paul

 

[Paul]

Hi Ken,

Just to clarify. Whilst I want to write back the modifications I want to
retain the remainder of the records in the original file.

Here are the steps:
1) Read whole xml file into dataset.
2) Make some edits/deletes/adds to the dataset.
3) Update the original xml file with the changes.


Thanks,
Paul

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Paul,

Ken showed you exactly what you asked for in the subject, while I did
understand you would write only the changes in "the" existing file, what is
impossible, the XML file is just a plain txt file as an html file is and
others like that and therefore you have always to write the whole file.

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Paul]

Thanks to both of you,

I should of caught on to that earlier and last night having spent the whole
day reading etc I realised it. I'm use to writing records into a database
and have (as yet) little xml experience.

I guess the whole file will just have to be written out each time the user
saves. It is really too small to warrent a database.

Thanks again,
Paul

 

[Paul]

Thanks to both of you,

I should of caught on to that earlier and last night having spent the whole
day reading etc I realised it. I'm use to writing records into a database
and have (as yet) little xml experience.

I guess the whole file will just have to be written out each time the user
saves. It is really too small to warrent a database.

Thanks again,
Paul