I'm a retired programmer/analyst - and thus, all my tools are pretty old. I'm in the market for something that'll offer an unlimited number of dataset fields. Need to port something I wrote in VB5, so I'd guess I'd rather stick to VB if there's a dataset it can use that doesn't have a 248 field limit. But I've developed using Delphi 5 and C++ (no idea what version), Notes (not that I think that'll help me much here). and just about everything else that's out there, so I'm flexible.

Anyone know of a dataset / developing platform combo that'll let folks keep adding on fields ad nauseum?

Nothing, eh? :sigh: Ok, looks like I'll just have to make it look like it has unlimited fields to the user when in fact it doesn't. What a pain.

Well, as a start, what do you mean by "dataset" ?

Do you mean something like an ADO Recordset or ADO.Net DataSet that supports binding to an underlying data source, or do you just want an "object" that supports the concept of records and unlimited named fields ?

If the latter, you can easily use XML and 1 of the public XML class libraries (MSXML etc).