planoie,

Yes, I know what the structure of the columns are. I guess maybe the question is, how do I manipulate the table columns in the right order using the code above? Or how do you get VS to recognize the DS so that during design time, you can specify the order of the columns? I know how to do this when I add a dataadapter and build a dataset from that, but seeing that I am using xml instead of a sql table(or the like) I don't know how to do it.

Fortunately, Visual Studio can't do everything for us lest I would be unemployeed.

Put in the columns markup just the way Visual Studio automatically when it reads the dataset:

<columns>
   <asp:boundcolumn datafield="field1fromXML" />
   <asp:boundcolumn datafield="field2fromXML" />
   ...
</columns>

-Peter