WordTemplate.SetDataSource(System.Collections.IDictionary)

Description

Sets a template's main document data source to an IDictionary collection. An IDictionary represents a collection of key-and-value pairs.

C#

vb.net

Parameters

dataSource

An IDictionary collection of key-and-value pairs.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

Save will throw this exception if null (C#) or Nothing (VB.NET) is passed to the method.

ArgumentException

Remarks

Each merge field in a WordWriter template must bind to a data source field/value pair. The number of merge fields in the main template document (the part of the document that is not within a repeat block) may not exceed the number of values in the data source defined by SetDataSource. However, the number of values in the data source may be greater than the number of merge fields in the main template document.

Do not call this method more than once for a single instance of WordTemplate. To set multiple main document data sources, use the following methods:
SetDataSource(Object(), String(), String)
SetDataSource(System.Data.DataSet, String)
SetDataSource(System.Data.DataTable, String)
SetDataSource(System.Data.IDataReader, String)

Examples

C#