Connecting to an ADO.NET XML Recordset

Although COM remains an exceedingly popular model for programming, it is being surpassed in new-development popularity by .NET. As Business Objects continues to remain current on Microsoft technologies, there is a means for reporting off ADO.NET data sources. The following steps describe connecting to ADO.NET data:

1.	From the File menu, select New, Blank Report.
2.	With the Database Expert open, expand Create New Connection and double-click ADO.NET (XML).
3.	When presented with the ADO.NET window, first select the location of the source file. Either manually enter the path to the file or use the Browse button to find the file. When using the Browse button, be sure to select the correct filter (XML File, XML Schema, or .NET Dataset Provider).
4.	If a .NET Dataset Provider is selected, the .NET dataset might expose multiple classes. To identify a specific class from the Provider, check the box beside Use Classes from Project, and select the class from the list of available classes.
5.	Multiple datasets might be exposed from a given class. In order to select a dataset from a class, check the box beside Use Dataset from Class and select the dataset from the list of available datasets.