strongly typed dataset error

[isaacd]

I have a strongly typed dataset which is not performing like it supposed to.

The error I am getting is:

'Store_Eco.Inventory_846.newInventoryDS' is a 'field' but is used like a 'type'

I am declaring a new DS as follows:

[teal]InventoryDS[/teal] newInventoryDS = [blue]new[/blue] [teal]InventoryDS[/teal]();

Then, when I try to use it on the next line as following:

[u]newInventoryDS[/u].productData prodDT = newInventoryDS.productData.NewproductDataRow();

The error comes up when I try a build.

Oddly newInventoryDS also doesn't come up in intellisense after a few minutes of typing it. It only does sometimes.

I've done the same thing before and not had this issue on a totally different project at my last job.

Could it be a configuration issue or is the DS defined bad?

The DS definition was built from a DTD file passed from a third party. I used Visual Studio then to create the schema and then xsd.exe to create the class. I can create an empty copy and it will write out the xmlSchema just fine also.

Any suggestions?

 

[phinoppix]

As the error message said, you're using the newInventoryDS object as a type.

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[u]newInventoryDS.productData[/u] prodDT = newInventoryDS.productData.NewproductDataRow(); [COLOR=green]//compile error
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newInventoryDS.productData is actually a strongly typed DataTable object, and the NewproductDataRow() method is a member of that dataTable type which returns a strongly typed datarow. The strongly typed datatable(s) and datarow(s) are nested types in the InventoryDS dataset type.

InventoryDS.<the_product_datatable_type> tbl = new InventoryDS.<the_product_datatable_type>();

InventoryDS.<the_product_datarow_type> row = tbl.NewproductDataRow();

hth