Hello.

How can I load an Entity collection from a xml file. The .xml file contains a correct dataset structure as it's save from a dataset.

Basically, I wish to build a small website that usses LLBL Gen and reads data from pre-saved recordset ( .xml local files)

Best Regards & happy new year to all of you.

I think the easiest way to do it is to load the xml in a dataset again and walk all rows in the datatable and instantiate entities from that.

You can also use an XSLT to convert the XML to xml of the format WriteXml() spits out for that particular entitycollection, but that's a hit hard, unless you're a real xml/xslt expert.

So Enitity Collection are loaded only from dbs. I think it could be a nice idea to extend them to support XML Offline recordset

That's already build in: An entity collection can be written to XML using WriteXml and read back using ReadXml(). The problem is: if you have xml in another format you first have to convert it to the format ReadXml can understand. Which is pretty hard I think.