The easiest way to look at the contents of a dataset is to view it as XML. You can view the XML representation of the dataset using the GetXML() method as follows:

In VB:

dsCustomer.GetXML()
			

In C#:

dsCustomer.GetXML();
			

You can type this line directly into the Command window with a question mark (?) in front of it to dump the contents to the Command window. Or you can use it the Debug.WriteLine or Console.WriteLine within the code itself.

If you would prefer to dump the contents of the dataset to a file so you can search it, use WriteXML instead.